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that is improving bees, and we are the 

 only people that import Caucasian 

 queens. I do know that what we have 

 sent out are good, reliable Caucasian 

 queens. As to putting them in isolated 

 places, it is absolutely impossible. Any 

 person that has tried knows that it is 

 absolutely impossible to find places 20 

 miles apart to keep queens. I was asked 

 to do something that I can not do; 

 neither can I go to see every man that 

 writes for queens. We can not send to 

 people who are good queen-rearers. The 

 distribution of queens has been- stopped, 

 and will be for all time, if I have my 

 say about it. I don't think the Bureau 

 has any business giving away queens, 

 and I have recommended that it be 

 stopped. 



W. H. Laws — I want to thank Dr. 

 Bohrer for his painstaking advice to the 

 queen-breeders ; we need the older 

 heads to keep us straight. The Carnio- 

 lans. Holy Lands and Cyprians have 

 been imported and spread broadcast 

 over the country, and I think that some 

 of these races I have named have creat- 

 ed more injury than the Caucasion race, 

 and in some cases they have proven 

 very valuable. 



Dr. Bohrer — I want to make one more 

 suggestion, and that is to secure some 

 place like Kelly's Island. 



Mr. Stone — As far as I am concerned, 

 I don't feel any danger in the introduc- 

 tion of this bee, or any other kind of 

 bee. I feel toward them like I do to- 

 ward my farm crops. When I intro- 

 duce a particular kind of potato or 

 grain of any kind I think of them just 

 like my bees. If I have introduced 

 Italian bees and they are better they 

 will eventually run out the others that 

 are no good; they will eventually come 

 to the top, just like oil will come to t\\? 

 top of water. 



Mr. Anderson — I have received queens 

 from Dr. Phillips, and I have one queen 

 that Dr. Phillips sent me that I would 

 not take $50 for today. I don't con- 

 sider this stock would injure the Ital- 

 ians. 



Next Place of Meeting. 



Pres. Dadant — It is customary for 

 those, who wish to have the place of 

 meeting selected for next year, to make 

 a proposal of the place, which is passed 

 on afterwards by the Executive Com- 

 mittee. There has already been a place 

 proposed, not only for next meeting, but 

 for the following meeting, and I would 



like to hear from you. Our General 

 Manager has some correspondence on 

 the subject. 



Mr. France — The bee-keepers, espec- . 

 ially the members of our Association, 

 feel that the cost is great, but the good 

 they get is great, and' they would like 

 to see this convention moved about. 

 Invitations to different places have 

 come in. We had to drop the invita- 

 tion from Minnesota and come to Texas 

 this year. Minnesota has renewed her 

 invitation for the future. There will 

 be at Jamestown, Va., next summer, 

 and continue until the early fall, an 

 anniversary of the Jamestown Settle- 

 ment, and there are here letters from 

 the Pennsylvania bee-keepers and their 

 neighbors, that we meet at one of those 

 respective places. Then there is also 

 one from Michigan; they feel that that 

 part of the United States is entitled to 

 the next meeting. 



Pres. Dadant — I would like to hear 

 from the bee-keepers, if they have a 

 place selected. The meetings have been 

 held west of the Mississippi River, and 

 it is time we were going East. 



Mr. Coggshall — I would suggest that 

 we go to Virginia. I think that would 

 be a good place. We have come West 

 a number of times, and we would like 

 to moet in the East. 



Mr. Holekamp — It seems that the 

 Jamestown people's invitation should be 

 accepted. 



Dr. Bohrer — I don't know; there are 

 a good many bee-keepers in Virginia, 

 and a good many in Pennsylvania, and a 

 good many in New York, and they 

 should be favored with a meeting of this 

 kind. I don't think this would be a 

 discredit to the bee-keepers there, nor 

 we a discredit to them. I have never 

 been in Jamestown, Va., and I think 

 we could have a whole lot of fun there. 

 I attend these meetings for the fun, 

 and I have had a good deal of it here. 



Mr. York — All we can do is to recom- 

 mend that the places be considered by 

 the Committee. 



Pres. Dadant — I want to impress upon 

 your minds that it is important that 

 we should go where there are bee-keep- 

 ers, and if they are not in numbers it 

 will make a poor meeting. Now the 

 Norfolk, Va., people want us there, be- 

 cause they want us to see the town. 

 If these bee-keepers want us, it is all 

 right. 



