' STATE BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION. ' 4I 



Mr. Baldridge — It is a good time to Italianize in the fall 

 or any other time. 



Mr. Whitney — I didn't raise my hand, as Pres. York 

 didn't put the question on the other side, but my experience 

 has not been very flattering. I would think it might be a 

 good time to re-queen in the fall, provided you had a queen- 

 less colony and would be likely to lose them if you didn't 

 re-queen.^ Late in the season! got a couple of valuable 

 queens and I undertook to introduce them and they came 

 pretty nearly setting my whole yard wild trying to rob each 

 other, and they fought the colony of bees so frightfully that 

 they actually destroyed it. The colony killed their queen, 2 

 or 3 days after introducing, as they were so disturbed. I had 

 almost a similar experience trying another. It is the first 

 experience I ever had introducing queens in the fall, and it 

 seems to me that if they are introduced in the spring during 

 flight-time, or after that, she would be during her prime and 

 would have a good colony of bees to go into winter quarters 

 with. It seems to me to be a much better plan. I have a 

 clipping here which says the fall is the best time to introduce 

 bees. I don't think so. That's what my experience taught 

 me. Perhaps I don't do it right. My experience was very 

 unfavorable. 



Dr. Miller — I raised my hand because I think the fall is 

 a good time. I doubt whether it is the best time. I doubt 

 whether I ever introduced a queen in the fall, but if I had a 

 queenless colony in the fall, I would think the fall was the 

 best time to introduce the queen rather than to hold that 

 colony queenless until spring. Whatever may be the dis- 

 advantages, there is this one advantage in introducing the 

 queen in the fall, that you don't interfere at all with the 

 honey crop as you may do by introducing a queen early in 

 the season. 



Mr. Abbott — The man that interferes with the honey crop 

 in introducing a queen doesn't know how to introduce a 

 queen. 



Pres. York — Don't know when ? 



Mr. Abbott — Don't know how. Let me tell you how to 

 introduce a queen so it won't interfere with any honey crop. 

 The bee-papers have never found this out, and the people 

 who write bee-books. 



Dr. Miller — I thought I told them you said so ! 



Mr. Abbott — Put the queen on the hive and pay no at- 

 tention to the queen that is in there. After she is in there 

 let her lay all she can, and all she will, and when you get 

 one in, pinch the other queen's head oflF and turn that loose 

 and go on about your business. You can get five or six on 

 top of the .hive, as many as you want, and let all six out. 

 There isn't any use of this fojol nonsense, telling people to 

 make their bees queenless. It is like hundreds of other things. 

 It has been in bee-papers and agricultural papers until nearly 

 everybody thinks it is absolutely the way to do this, and you 



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