Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 2.—Scholls group of five hives with supers and covers placed on in aSee Beekeeping in the Southwest for last issue. jiffy. OCTOBER 1, 1913. Chicken colony house cunu Monday 1 opened the hive, and almost atonce fonnd her. She was barely able tocling- to the comb, and within a few secondsthe bees snrrounded her rather roughly,though a little smoke dispersed them. Afurther search disclosed about a dozenqueen-cells, each well extended aid contain-ing a larva. I destroyed every cell, andclosed the hive. Then I sat down to thinkit over about as follows. The smoke intr
Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 2.—Scholls group of five hives with supers and covers placed on in aSee Beekeeping in the Southwest for last issue. jiffy. OCTOBER 1, 1913. Chicken colony house cunu Monday 1 opened the hive, and almost atonce fonnd her. She was barely able tocling- to the comb, and within a few secondsthe bees snrrounded her rather roughly,though a little smoke dispersed them. Afurther search disclosed about a dozenqueen-cells, each well extended aid contain-ing a larva. I destroyed every cell, andclosed the hive. Then I sat down to thinkit over about as follows. The smoke intro-duction was very evidently a success; thebees must have recognized at once the con-dition of the new queen, and gone to workactively and veiy promptly to avoid prob-able queenlessness. The original queen mustliave begun laying between my second andthird examinations, whereby the colony hadeggs for the queen-cells. The new queen isa goner. The original cjueen looks fine,ami is tliis seasons hatching. Tliere is onlyone thing to do—put the old lady back onher job. Upon lifting the cover there wasthe new cjueen on top of the frames, with-out an attendant, just able
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