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best work in the first year?" 



Pres. York — All who think so, raise 



your hands. 3. How many think a queen 



does her best work in her 2d year? 9. 

 Dr. Bohrer — I do not raise my hand 



in either case, because I do not know. 



My observation has taught me not to 



be positive about that. 

 Dr. Miller — Maybe someibody thinks 



the 3d year. 



a queen to a colony with laying work- 

 ers?" 



Mr. Wilcox — We don't want to. 



Dr. Miller — One way is to introduce 

 a virgin queen just out of the cell. Al- 

 most invariably, if not invariably, she 

 will be accepted. 



Mr. Whitney — I asked that question, 

 because last season I had a little ex- 

 perience with a laying-worker colony, 



Mbs. N. L. Stow, Evanston, Ili,. 

 Retiring Viee-Fresident of tlie Gliicago-Nortli western Bee-Keepers' Assoeiation. 



Pres. York — All who think the 3d 

 year raise your hands. I do not see 

 any one on that. 



Dr. Miller — ^With that in view you 

 may add one more to the 2d year. I 

 did not vote. I know now ! 



Pres. York — You wanted to see which 

 way it was going? 



Introducing a Queen to a Laying- 

 Worker Colony 



"How shall we successfully introduce 



and I had a great deal of trouble. I 

 was removing some queens from other 

 colonies for requeening, and I thought 

 I would use those to test that laying- 

 worker colony, and I introduced one 

 in the usual way, kept her until I 

 thought she had been recognized by the 

 bees, and then I let her free. They 

 killed her in a few minutes. Then I 

 tried another plan. I took the bees 

 all out and shook them on the ground 

 at a distance, carried the combs back 



