. Gleanings in bee culture . al countries queens wear out of California are semi-tropical andmany of our regions have periods of longbrood-rearing. In the great valleys of thestate there is active brood-rearing for nineto ten months of the year. In other partsof the state there is but half this amount ofbrood-rearing. Where there are long sea-sons and when migratory beekeeping is en-gaged in, it pays to requeen every year. Re-queening is unquestionably better than wait-ing for supersedure. But when the seasonis short and fast with only one main flowduring spring, how about it? Let i
. Gleanings in bee culture . al countries queens wear out of California are semi-tropical andmany of our regions have periods of longbrood-rearing. In the great valleys of thestate there is active brood-rearing for nineto ten months of the year. In other partsof the state there is but half this amount ofbrood-rearing. Where there are long sea-sons and when migratory beekeeping is en-gaged in, it pays to requeen every year. Re-queening is unquestionably better than wait-ing for supersedure. But when the seasonis short and fast with only one main flowduring spring, how about it? Let it be un-derstood that the queen must reach herpeak at the proper time and that she mustbe responsible for her quota of young beesreared during September or October. Sup-posing a queen is raised just after the peakhas been reached this year, will she be ableto produce in May, 1924, her 75,000 or 100,-000 workers? For several years we thoughtour queens would do it—many of them have found that the extra cost of annual. -Stock taken from small hives like those in Fig. 1. Hundreds of colonitgreat help in studying the principles of breeding. to work with are a 298 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE May, 1922 requeening is more than taken care of in anincrease of the crop. One drawback is thatwe are never sure that the replaced queenis going to be as good as the one removed—often she is not. It pays, however, underall conditions to requeen every year. Andit pays likewise to requeen with Italianstock colonies affected with European foulbrood. Eequeening is in order for severecases of sacbrood and for the so-called par-alysis. Eequeening Time. Aside from requeening for mismated andinferior queens, and on account of diseases,which practice may occur at any time dur-ing the year, we hear the question, Whatis the best time for the commercial bee-keeper to do his general requeening? Thefactors under consideration are to preparecolonies for the (1) main flow, (2) one ormore secondary flows
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