. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. August, 1907. American ^ee Journal Where do the Field-Bees Deposit Their Loads? On another page of this number will be found a communication from our good friend of "the land o' cakes," D. M. Macdonald. If he is right in his sup- position that no one should have misun- derstood any of his condensed state- ments, then all is well, and nothing more is to be said upon that subject. He will pardon, however, a brief re- joinder with regard to the matter of honey, or nectar, being deposited in the brood-nest or brood-chamber and after- ward carrie
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. August, 1907. American ^ee Journal Where do the Field-Bees Deposit Their Loads? On another page of this number will be found a communication from our good friend of "the land o' cakes," D. M. Macdonald. If he is right in his sup- position that no one should have misun- derstood any of his condensed state- ments, then all is well, and nothing more is to be said upon that subject. He will pardon, however, a brief re- joinder with regard to the matter of honey, or nectar, being deposited in the brood-nest or brood-chamber and after- ward carried up into the super. No, Mr. Macdonald, your "impossible" was not misunderstood, but was under- stood just as you intended it to mean— the cells being already filled it was "im- possible" to use them for storing the nectar brought in from the field. If your premise was correct, your "impossible" was a legitimate deduction. The point at issue now is whether 'the nectar that mav be shaken out of a brood-frame at a time wheji bees are gathering is mere- ly "a small percentage with unsealed honey * * * for the nurse-bees," or whether all the honey brought in by the fielders is first deposited in the brood-chamber. As one shakes a brood-comb and notes the amount of thin honey thrown out. it hardly seems possible that it could all be needed for the immediate wants of the nurse-bees. On the other hand, it must be frankly admitted that when one takes comb after comb out of the brood - chamber, and notes how well filled they are, one hesitates to believe that there is room in them to deposit the gathering of a day when that gath- ering amounts to S, lo, or more pounds. But we have it on the word of so care- ful an observer as G. M. Doolittle that such is the case, and if Mr. Macdonald is willing to accept him as proof on one point, why not on another? Plainly, however, there is a contra- diction between the day's gathering be- ing deposited in t
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