. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. Vol. XII OCTOBER, 1902 No. 10 QUEEN REARING. Prejudice, Ignorance and Mis-Statcments the Rule in the Profession -Alley's System Championed. (Arthur C. Miller.) 4^ SAVE at the spigot and waste at the bung," quite aptly fits most of the so-called economical sys- tems of queen rearing now in vogue. Each system has its champions, but un- fortunately the discussion of the merits of each has thus far been carried on al- most entirely by those who have for sale queens reared by the method they are adv
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. Vol. XII OCTOBER, 1902 No. 10 QUEEN REARING. Prejudice, Ignorance and Mis-Statcments the Rule in the Profession -Alley's System Championed. (Arthur C. Miller.) 4^ SAVE at the spigot and waste at the bung," quite aptly fits most of the so-called economical sys- tems of queen rearing now in vogue. Each system has its champions, but un- fortunately the discussion of the merits of each has thus far been carried on al- most entirely by those who have for sale queens reared by the method they are advocating, or who have for sale implements for use in some system, or both. Such evidence is of necessity biased, and of little or no value to the practical bee-keener who desires to get at the meri'ts of the subject. Labor and time are used to make ar- tificial cell-cups; much more time is used to stock them with larvae, and all to what purpose V That the queen cells may "be built conveniently on a stick" and that ''valuable combs may not be ; Could any seemingly plaus- ible statements be more fallacious? And those two statenrents are absolute- ly the only ones used in defense of the pernicious cell cup system of queen rearing. At the invitation of Mr. Alley I re- cently visited his apiary to inspect his new system of queen rearing, and the queens reared by it, and I will here try to describe some of the features which s:o to make his svstem the most thor- ough, complete, economical and effici- ent of any now in use. His method of preparing the bees for cell building is as given in his book, as is also the keeping of his breeding queen in a small hive and the stripping up of the egg-filled combs for cell building, l)Ut Irom that point on, many changes have been made. Instead of fastening the strips of cells to the lower edge of a half comb, he now attaches them to strips of wood and places several of them in a frame just as is done with artificial cells.
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