. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. =T*-l'flJJ American Hee Journal shown Fig. 2, is used to do away with a part of this work. It is made of tin, with a small knob to turn eacli wing out as desired. Each wing of the sig- nal is painted a different color, as red, white and blue. In connection with the signal 1 use a small piece of card- board tacked on the side of the hive numbered in a half circle as this : 1, 3, ti, il, 12, , 18, 21, 24, 27, 30 with a wire bent to point to any one figure or to any third day in the monfh. For in- stance, suppose the signal indicates that there is a v
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. =T*-l'flJJ American Hee Journal shown Fig. 2, is used to do away with a part of this work. It is made of tin, with a small knob to turn eacli wing out as desired. Each wing of the sig- nal is painted a different color, as red, white and blue. In connection with the signal 1 use a small piece of card- board tacked on the side of the hive numbered in a half circle as this : 1, 3, ti, il, 12, , 18, 21, 24, 27, 30 with a wire bent to point to any one figure or to any third day in the monfh. For in- stance, suppose the signal indicates that there is a virgin (the white wing), and the hand points to 15, it would mean look for a layer the 15th, when the signal can be turned to the red, meaning laving. The blue indicates a cell. After the queen has begun to lay the entrance queen-excluder is pushed down over the entrance, thus holding her in case of swarming. Platteville, Wis. Improvement in Bees BY E. S. MILES. Referring to the discussion of im- provement in bees. I cannot see how a man who believes an improvement pos- sible can be compared, by Dr. Bonney, with those who believe in " the divine right of kings " or "the divine right of ; I would, on the contrary, put the one who says that it can't be done along with those who said that slavery or monarchy could not be abolished. Because the Doctor has failed to pick out a queen whose progeny would be like her, he should not conclude that others cannot. It takes close ob- servation to determine that a certain colony has the qualities we want in a sufficient degree to warrant the belief that they will transmit the same to their progeny if properly mated. I can- not see how learning the different the- ories of breeding could help a man in the breeding of animals unless he had this ability to pick out the ones having the traits wanted in sufficient degree to perpetuate said traits. The argument that a colonv will produce a large crop one season and be wor
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