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Greater prolificness. Ctli. Tenacity in adhering to 

 the brood. 7th. The queen's habit of adhering 

 to the comb. 8th. Superior success in resisting 

 the miller and moth-worm. Oth. Greater endur- 

 ance in times of scarcity. 10th. Adherence to 

 the comb in artificial swarming. 



Summer mauageu)ent was then discussed, but 

 no new points were brought out. 



Evening Session. 



President Moon delivered a very able address. 

 He brought out in vivid colors the inducements 

 to apiculture; showed the need of concerted 

 action and congressional aid ; and closed with 

 an earnest appeal for a INational Bee-keepers' 

 Convention. Several members warmly advo- 

 cated this project. Several letters from promi- 

 jieut bee-keepers, also urging a call at some cen- 

 tral position, were then read. After considerable 

 discussion, the following resolution with the pre- 

 amble, was unanimously adopted. 



Whereafi, the subject of a National Bee-keepers' 

 Association was much talked of at our last gather- 



And icJiereas, in our judgment, the time for the 

 same is fullj^ come ; therefore 



Resolved, That we issue a call for a National 

 Bee-keepers' Association, to be held at the city of 

 Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 10th and 11th of 

 August next. 



TnuRSDAV, March 2ii7i. 



The Melextractor was commended to favor by 

 Mr. Rood, of Wayne, Mich., and Mr. Hart, of 

 Wisconsin, as being second only in importance 

 to movable frames, as an aid to the apiarian. 



Alsike clover was liighly recommended by 

 several gentlemen of experience, not only for 

 bee pasturage, but also as a forage plant. 



Mr. Hood would raise queens in nuclei, so as 

 to always have some on hand. 



Mr. Hart said queens were apt to chill, and 

 thus be reduced in size, if not destroyed. In his 

 hives he had them above the frames, separated 

 by a wire gauze ; thus they were never chilled, 

 and were much larger. 



Mr. Mitchell described the queen-breeding cage 

 of Dr. Davis, stating that it worked admirably, 

 and recommended its use to all. 



The ditTerent methods of artificial swarming 

 •were then given. All of which may be found in 

 Langstrothon " the Hive and Honey bee;",acopy 

 of which every apiarian should own. 



!^^^. Rood read a paper on transferring.* 



The Secretary then read a paper on the sub- 

 ject of inciting an increased interest in apiculture. 

 He referred to the great encouragement which 

 increased information yielded to the apiarian ; 

 gave some examples of the great profit as related 

 to labor and expenses of bee-culture; showed 

 • how it incited its votaries to higher mental im- 

 provement ; and proved it to be one of the greatest 

 stimulants to a higher moral culture, and in view 

 of the good which society would reap front an 

 . increased of interest in apiculture, offered the fol- 

 lowing resolutions, which were adopted: 



1st. Resolved, That, in the present state of our 



* Will appear in a future number of the Bee Jousnal. 



finances, we deem the publication of a work on 

 apiculture for gratuitous distribution, or the dis- 

 semination of works already written, at the ex- 

 pense of this Association, ill advised. 



2d. Rexohed, That recognizing the value of 

 Adair's Annals of Bee-culture, the American Bee- 

 Journal, and Illustrated Bee Journal, we do all 

 in our power to promote the circulation of the 

 same. 



3d. Jtesolvcd, That, as individuals, we will do 

 all in our power, in our respective communities, 

 to increase the hiterest in bee-culture. 



4th. Resolved, That we, as individuals "and as 

 an Association, will encourage i)opu!ar lectures 

 upon this most interesting and profitable vocation. 



A resolution was passed instructing the Secre- 

 tary to forward the proceedings of the meetings 

 to the bee journals for publication. 



" [For the Atn?ricau Bee .Tournal ] 



Introducing Queen Bees. 



Mr. Editor : — Last season I introduced four 

 hundred and five (40'i) queens, into all sorts of 

 hives in the country. Of this number sixty were 

 killed in the introduction and six were killed 

 after they commenced laying. Of the sixty-six 

 colonies that killed their queens, four failed to 

 supply themselves with another perfect one. One 

 colony killed the second queen given to it. 

 Much the fewest number of losses occurred about 

 swarming time. 



My plan of introduction was to kill the native 

 queen, and immediately introduce the Italian one, 

 confining her to her cage with a plug of honey 

 comb, which the bees could eat out in a day or 

 two, thus liberating her. 



I would like to hear from others who have 

 introduced hundreds in a season, what proportion 

 were lost, and what was the plan of introduction. 



I will have to put in from eight hundred to one 

 thousand queens the coming summer, and wish 

 to get at the most practical mode of introducing 

 generally over the country. I have a convenient 

 wooden box weighing only 2^ pounds, in which 

 I can carry three'dozen queens, with food to last 

 them one or two weeks. 



Bees in Eastern Ohio, and in Pennsylvania 

 west of Pittsburgh, during the last summer made 

 Kilt little honey, and did not supply the losses of 

 stocks. 



Italian bees have shown their superiority, most 

 especially in the number of swarms produced. 



If we could only manage to introduce all 

 queens safely to the'hives for the people over the 

 country, the number of our sales would be in- 

 creased fourfold. I would give good wages for 

 hands that could do such work. 



R. WiLKEN. 



Cadiz, Ohio. 



It is a singular fact that wax is more rapidly 

 and largely made by feeding the bees with dis- 

 solved sugar, than from the honey they collect 

 themselves ; the sugar thus evidenllj' containing 

 more of its constituent elements. 



