Gleanings in bee culture . Mr. James Armstrong addressing the Ontario field meeting (Mr. Armstrong is standing with the framein his hand. Mr. O. L. Hershiser and Mr. R. F. Holtermann are seated just at the left). Photographed by R. F. Holtermann. AUGUST 1, 191^ 537. f ;*•«-. ^ \ i 4 Fig. 1.—Geo. Fetzers work-shop and house apiary. two to three per cent. Years ago it used tobe much heavier; and after reading the egg-giving controversy I rememberedthat I used to give each nucleus or colonya comb of eggs and brood, not to induce thecjueen to lay sooner, but to see by the pres-ence or absence of q
Gleanings in bee culture . Mr. James Armstrong addressing the Ontario field meeting (Mr. Armstrong is standing with the framein his hand. Mr. O. L. Hershiser and Mr. R. F. Holtermann are seated just at the left). Photographed by R. F. Holtermann. AUGUST 1, 191^ 537. f ;*•«-. ^ \ i 4 Fig. 1.—Geo. Fetzers work-shop and house apiary. two to three per cent. Years ago it used tobe much heavier; and after reading the egg-giving controversy I rememberedthat I used to give each nucleus or colonya comb of eggs and brood, not to induce thecjueen to lay sooner, but to see by the pres-ence or absence of queen-cells Avhether thequeen had been lost in mating when exam-ining the nuclei for laying queens on thetenth or eleventh day. Well, this test prov-ed a failure because 1 would often And cellsstarted, and virgin queen being chasedabout on the combs by the bees or did not occur to me at the time that thegiving of brood might be the cause of thetreatment of the Cjueen. I merely aban-doned the plan as unreliable. After reading page 796, Dec. 15. 1912, Idecided to make another test. I had tenqueens which had hatched a week of them I found were already fer-tilized, but two had not mated. Into bothof tliese hives I jjut a comb of e
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