Gleanings in bee culture . es with frames filled with comb orfoundation. An excellent plan to preventswarming, but please let it always have theIDroper label. [The suggestion is a goodone. As the Demaree plan has been spokenof considerably it will be incorporated un-der the head of Swarming, to Control, inthe next edition of the A B C and X Y Zof Bee Culture.—Ed.] John A. McKinkonhas sent me two queen-cells I would not havesupposed possible, andT am forwarding themherewith. The extremelength of one is Yoinch; of the othler9-16. They are seal-ed, and he says con-tain larvEe less than 48hours ol
Gleanings in bee culture . es with frames filled with comb orfoundation. An excellent plan to preventswarming, but please let it always have theIDroper label. [The suggestion is a goodone. As the Demaree plan has been spokenof considerably it will be incorporated un-der the head of Swarming, to Control, inthe next edition of the A B C and X Y Zof Bee Culture.—Ed.] John A. McKinkonhas sent me two queen-cells I would not havesupposed possible, andT am forwarding themherewith. The extremelength of one is Yoinch; of the othler9-16. They are seal-ed, and he says con-tain larvEe less than 48hours old, built by astrong fhree-story col-ony fed a quart of syrup daily. I dontthink I ever before saw a sealed queen-cellwith a larva less than 72 hours old, and thecell was always full length. P. C. Chadwick, p. 718, Im with youand fornenst Wesley Foster. Im a bitskeptical about there being such a greatdanger of disease thru surplus sold on themarket. Ive had some experience in feed-ing honey stored by colonies having Euro-. pean foul brood, and never knew it toconvey the disease. Of course that doesntprove it never does. I know of two cases ofAmerican foul brood treated in this way:The colony was allowed to store a story ofsealed combs. In the fall its brood-combswere exchanged for this story of sealedcombs. Thus it was left with no honey butthat wliich it had itself stored. Next yearno sign of the disease appeared. H. H. Root, even tho you claim the roleof the little dog, the beekeeping frater-nity is indebted to you for a valuable con-tribution to apicultural literature. In nice-ty of exactness, that repoit of M. T. Pritch-ard as to the stages of tlie development ofa young queen, p. 805, is the best of any-thing I know of on record. Many thanks,Mel. The most difficult thing I found insuch experiments was to know within anhour just when the eggs were laid; but Inever thought of emptying eggs out of thecells. Of course there will be variations, butunder proper conditions for qu
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