. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 190 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. out. This time I gave each a frame of cap- ped brood and unsealed larva?. Agam I put the bees back, and, presto! they both stayed just as quietly as if that had always been their home. Before they had their brood, they vpere crawling all over the hives m wild confusion, flying out at the entrance and then back. I am aware that unsealed larv* will not always hold them. I have had newly hived swarms vacate in fifteen min- utes, even after having given them larvffi. But as a general rule, in our experience, un- sealed brood is a
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 190 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. out. This time I gave each a frame of cap- ped brood and unsealed larva?. Agam I put the bees back, and, presto! they both stayed just as quietly as if that had always been their home. Before they had their brood, they vpere crawling all over the hives m wild confusion, flying out at the entrance and then back. I am aware that unsealed larv* will not always hold them. I have had newly hived swarms vacate in fifteen min- utes, even after having given them larvffi. But as a general rule, in our experience, un- sealed brood is a mighty good detainer. It makes them contented, and sort o at ; The above, as I understand it, is not a fair test as to the efficacy of brood in retaining a newly hived swarm. The bees were queen- less. Their queen was clipped, and not being able to follow them she had returned to the old hive. A swarm having no queen with it will never stay hived unless given un- sealed brood, but will continue to swarm out as often as hived, hence I say that the above was not a fair test. I should expect that un- sealed brood would invariably hold queenless bees, but my faith in its detaining bees hav- ing a queen has been terribly shaken. Bees having a queen can snap their fingers at brood. They are independent. They can rear brood and establish a colony wherever they please. Not so with a queenless swarm. It is doomed. The bees are ready to catch at anything to save the community from de- struction, and a comb of unsealed brood is hailed with delight and " stayed ; parts of Carniola, and from adjoining dis- tricts toward the centre of the province. I have seen a railway train bearing five thous- and hives of bees and their attendants to the buckwheat fields. Some colonies are even brought over the mountain range which sep- arates Gorizia from Carniola, whose eleva- tion is from 1,200 to 2,.500 feet. Bearing in mind that Gorizia borders on Italy and that its surface sl
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