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in a box, <//</ sometimes kill a quren. I 

 didn't think they'd do it, hut they did. 

 Then, after these queenless bees had ac- 

 cepted a queen, they, or some of their 

 relatives, would turn in and kill a queen 

 after the bees and queen had been shaken 

 back into their old hive. I went back to 

 tlie tobacco smoke method, and have had 

 only one or two losses. I may have more 

 after the honey harvest is over. I did 

 last year. This year I am advising the 

 use of a little more smoke than I advised 

 last year. 



About two days before sending a queen 

 I send notice to mj- customer when he may 

 expect the queen, and, below the notice 

 are the following instructions: — 



As soon as j-ou receive this notice, re- 

 move the queen from the colony to which 

 you expect to introduce the new queen. 

 Wlien she arrives, put her away in a safe 

 place until after sundown, just at dusk, 

 then light your smoker, and when it is 

 well to going put in a pipeful of smoking 

 tobacco, put on the cover, puff until you 

 get an odor of tobacco, then puflF three or 

 four good puffs into the entrance of the 

 hive. Wait two or three minutes, then 

 send in another good puff or two, remove 

 the cover, drive the bees down witha pufT 

 of smoke, open the cage and allow the 

 (]ueen to run down between the com?)s, 

 following her with a puff or two of smoke, 

 and put on the cover. Half an hour later 

 light up the smoker again, put in the to- 

 bacco as r»efore, and blow two or three 

 more good puffs in at the entrance. If no 

 honey is coming in, feed the colony a 

 pint of sjrup each night from the inside 

 of the hive, but don't disturb the brood- 

 nest for four or five days. 



Prospkcts for the Denver convention 

 grow brighter as the time approaches. 

 The following editorial, taken from the 

 Rocky Mountain Bee Journal, gives some- 

 thing ot an idea what we may expect. 

 Bro. Morehouse says: — 



The indications are getting to be very 

 numerous and voluminous that the joint 

 meeting of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association and the Colorado State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association at Denver, Septem- 

 ber 3rd to 5th, inclusive, is going to be 

 the biggest event that ever happened in 

 the bee-keeping worUl. Assurances are 



coming from far and near that the attend- 

 ance will be of manmioth proportions. 

 The attendance from abroad is going to 

 be much larger than at first anticipated, 

 while the local attendance promises to 

 outdo what the most fervid imagination 

 would have predicted at the time this big 

 joint meeting was projected. 



Preparations for this event are being 

 made by the various committees and offi- 

 cers of both associations upon a scale 

 commensurate with its greatness and im- 

 po-tance. Everybody is coming and no 

 one will be disapointed. It will mark a 

 new era in bee-keepers' conventions. 

 Hereafter everything in such matters will 

 date from or be compared with "Denver." 



In the American Bee Journal I frequent- 

 1}' come across items like the following: — 



Mr. H. H. Hyde, of Wilson Co., Tex., 

 writes us that he is planning to attend 

 the National convention in Denver in 

 September. 



Mr. Gus Dittmer, of W'isconsin, wrote 

 us July 7. 



"I am thinking of going to Denver in 

 September with the rest of you." 



Mr. Sanford Hartnian, of Lincoln Co., 

 Neb., wrote us June iS: 



"If Providence permits, my wife and 

 myself will join your party when you go 

 through to Denver, and help you take in 

 the sights. You want to take time to 

 take in some of the excursions up into the 

 mountains. It's the grandest thing you 

 ever saw." 



**Wni^U»»^it» 



QUOTING THE HONEY MARKET. 



Of late the American Bee Journal has 

 been publishing some very interesting 

 letter from commission merchants. The 

 following are some of the important points 

 that have been brought out. 



It is impossible to have quotations 

 matheniaticaliy correct. Conditions are 

 constantly changing. It is not always 

 good policy to hold to a rigid price. A 

 small concession is sometimes advisable 

 rather than to let a hard buyer go. Some 

 dealers quote a little below the actual 

 price, because it gives better satisfaction 

 to consignors when their consignments 

 are sold "a little above the market." 

 Others quote high for the effect it will 



