. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. sss^. locfor [uesfi0nJ9)c. Send yuestions either to the otliee of the American bee .Journal, or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 1^°° Dr. Miller does not answer Questions by mail. Clipped aueens-Swarming-Yellow- est Bees 1. I bought a queen last year and her wings were clipped. This spring they seemed to be grown out. Will they grow out, or was it a young queen? 2. Will bees swarm before any young queen is hatched? 3. Which strain of bees is most golden yellow? Subscriber. Answers.—i. No, a wing that is clipped never grows out again. One ad- vantage
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. sss^. locfor [uesfi0nJ9)c. Send yuestions either to the otliee of the American bee .Journal, or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 1^°° Dr. Miller does not answer Questions by mail. Clipped aueens-Swarming-Yellow- est Bees 1. I bought a queen last year and her wings were clipped. This spring they seemed to be grown out. Will they grow out, or was it a young queen? 2. Will bees swarm before any young queen is hatched? 3. Which strain of bees is most golden yellow? Subscriber. Answers.—i. No, a wing that is clipped never grows out again. One ad- vantage of having a queen clipped, is that, as in the present case, you can tell when a young queen has taken her place. 2. A first swarm issues about 8 days before the first queen emerges. When an after-swarm issues, a young queen has already emerged, ready to go with the swarm, while one or more young queens still remain in the cell. 3. Probably Italians; although it may be that some Carniolans are equally yel- low. Management for Chunk Honey I have a few colonies of bees that I wish to run for chunk honey; i. e., use extracting frames and supers and cut the comb honey out instead of extract- ing. Will it be necessary for me to use queen-excluders if I use full sheets of comb foundation in my frames? Ohio. Answer.—That depends. With a small brood-chamber the queen is likely to go up; with a large brood-chamber she is not likely to trouble much in that way. In any case she is less likely to go up into an apartment filled with foundation than into one filled with old combs. Management to Prevent Swarming— Transferring 1. I would like to put 2 old colonies of bees on one stand with space between for one young colony. Now, if I should take the 2 old colonies with old queens away to another stand a distance of 4 rods', will the field-force of worker- bees unite with the young queen left on the old stand, and work, or will thev loaf? 2. Will this plan keep the old colonies from sw
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