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perience in the matter, and the probable causes 

 of failure and success. 



Mr. Lucas claimed that he had complied with 

 all the directions given by Mr. King. 



B. L. Adair was called for, and stated that he 

 had given at Cleveland, his experience, and had 

 seen no cause to retract anything he said there. 

 He had never tried the process advocated by Mr. 

 King, and therefore could not give an opinion. 

 Some queens he had no difficulty in fertilizing, 

 while others would not submit to the restraint. 

 For inst ance, such a wild queen as he had spoken 

 of to-day, could not be c mti oiled, but there was 

 one advantage in his process, which was that 

 there was no danger of losing a queen. If he 

 failed to secure fertilization in confinement, he 

 had them in a condition to use the Kohler or 

 Benedict process. Dr. Lucas' queens may have 

 been of a temperament that would not submit to 

 confinement — on the whole, he would not recom- 

 mend the practice, and did not attach much im- 

 portance to it, as it required an amount of atten- 

 tion, and knowledge of necessary conditions, 

 that but few would practice or attain, and it was 

 possible to secure pure fertilization by other me- 

 thods that would not take so much time and care. 



W. R. King coincided with Mr. Adair in what 

 he had said of the conditions and the general use 

 of the process. 



Mr. Wilkinson asked, Are the worker bees 

 necessary to the life of the queen ? or can a 

 queen live without them ? 



Br. Lucas. Had a queen in a cage in a hive 

 for two months. 



Mr. A. J. Pope. Had received a queen by 

 mail, without any accompanying workers. 



Br. Hamlin. Had carried a queen on his per- 

 son, for five days, in a cage. 



Mr. Southicorth. Had kept a queen four days 

 without workers. 

 B. L. Adair said a single bee, queen or worker, 

 could not live for any considerable time, out of 

 a regularly organized colony. When separated 

 from a colony, death was only a question of time. 

 A colony was a unit, and all its members were 

 necessary to the security of the others. When- 

 ever a colony of bees was reduced in numbers 

 below a working standard, they died out. That 

 standard was enough bees to form a cluster to 

 protect the brood nest, and to feed the young in 

 such numbers as to produce young bees faster 

 than the old ones die off. 



Mr. Hulman. Had kept queens caged, laying 

 on the frames, three or four weeks. 



Mr. Moon. Had kept queens, a number at a 

 time, in Dr. Davis' queen nursery, in a hive for 

 three weeks. 



Ni C. Mitchell. The bees will feed one thou- 

 sand queens in one hive, as long as they are 

 gathering honey, but will neglect them after 

 honey gathering ceases. Had kept twenty-five 

 at a time, caged in one hive, on the fjames above 

 the bees. 



Moses LTadley, Plainfield, la. Had kept a queen 

 in a cage, by herself, for three weeks. 



Mr. Winder asked, will two queens agree, if 

 confined together? 



B. L. Adair. In Italianizing, gave two black 

 queens to his boys. The boys put them together 



in a cage, to see them fight. They crawled over 

 each other without showing any disposition to 

 molest each other. They were kept in the cage 

 for a day or two. The boys decided that they 

 were not game stock. 



Mr. Shipley said a good deal had been said 

 about his whistling back decamping swarms, 

 and he wished to explain upon what principle 

 he based it. He noticed that the worker bees 

 made a sound in flying that was peculiar to the 

 workers alone. He noticed that the drones made 

 quite a different sound, and that the queen made 

 a whistling noise distinct from either. In whis- 

 tling, he merely imitated the sound made by the 

 queen. That was the whole secret. He in- 

 stanced the fact, that if you bawl in imitation 

 of the calf it will bring the cow to you, or imi- 

 tating the cow, will call the calf. Hunters call up 

 wild turkeys, by imitating the call of the turkey. 



Br. Lucas requested him to whistle as he did 

 in calling a swarm, which he did, but the re- 

 porter finds it difficult to give it on paper. 



President Clarke offered the following resolu- 

 tion, which was adopted. 



Resolved, That official notices, signed by the 

 president and secretaiy of this society, be in- 

 serted in the Bee Journals, and in all friendly 

 periodicals, announcing the name, objects, ad- 

 mission fee of the North American Beekeepers' 

 Society, and inviting beekeepers and others to 

 seek membership ; also, that official notices, so 

 signed, be transmitted, in due time, to the bee 

 and other journals, giving information of the 

 next annual meeting, of railroad, hotel and 

 steamboat arrangements, and urging a general 

 attendance from all parts of the continent. 



On motion of Dr. Lucas, D. L. Adair, W. R. 

 King, and Dr. T. B. Hamlin, were appointed a 

 committee of arrangement for the next meeting, 

 at Louisville, with instructions to report through 

 the papers in due time. 



The society having concluded its deliberations, 

 the president called on the Rev. H. A. King to 

 close with prayer, with which he appropriately 

 complied. After which, and the singing of the 

 doxology, the president declared "the North 

 American Beekeepers' Society adjourned, to 

 meet at the City of Louisville, Ky., on the first 

 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of Dec, 1873. 



Vegetable and Flower Seeds. — Mr. J. J. 

 H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass, is well known 

 as one of the few leading seed growers in this 

 country. He was the original introducer of 

 the Hubbard squash and many other of our new 

 and valuable vegetables. All seeds from him 

 are warranted fresh and reliable. His advertise- 

 ments will be found in this number, and we invite 

 attention to them. His illustrated catalogue for 

 1873 (now ready), will be sent free to all appli- 

 cants. 



There is to be an International Exhibition of 

 the Industries of the World, this coming summer 

 at Vienna, Austria. We trust the beekeepers 

 of America will not neglect to do their share 

 towards showing the world the progress made 

 in the New World in Apiculture. 



