. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 648 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 11, 1900 swarms that puts a stop to its rearing queens for you. unless you return the swarm ; but if it intends to supersede its queen it will build queen-cells rig-ht alonjj for you as long as the old queen lives. But you must not let this colony so perfect a young queen that it emerges from the cell, but keep the queen-cells taken out before any hatch, all the while : for if a young queen is allowed to emerge from her cell, the bees may let her kill the old one, or whether she does this or not they will build no more ce
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 648 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 11, 1900 swarms that puts a stop to its rearing queens for you. unless you return the swarm ; but if it intends to supersede its queen it will build queen-cells rig-ht alonjj for you as long as the old queen lives. But you must not let this colony so perfect a young queen that it emerges from the cell, but keep the queen-cells taken out before any hatch, all the while : for if a young queen is allowed to emerge from her cell, the bees may let her kill the old one, or whether she does this or not they will build no more cells, and most likely they will destroy all the other queen-cells that may be in the hive at this time. REARING OUEENS .4FTER THE HONEY-FLOW. yuESTiON.—I %vish to rear some queens to supersede a part of my old ones after the honey-flow is past. Can I rear them as late as September or October, and be sure of drones for their fertilization without any special provision for drones ? Answkk.—In this locality drones are usually driven out of the hives very soon after the honey-flow ceases; and unless there should happen to be some queenless colony in the neighborhood which would keep their drones, the queens reared as our questioner proposes might prove to be drone- layers ; still, as a rule, some colony within mating distance of our queens is liable to hold or keep their drones so that little risk is run in having queens prove drone-laj'ers if reared the first half of September. Bnt I should prefer to run no risks, nor would I wish my queens to take their chances of mating inferior drones, coming from a promis- cuous source ; and for this reason I set frames of drone- comb in tvro or three of my best colonies for drones about the middle of the summer honey-flow, and as soon as that flow is over this drone-brood is mast in a very strong tiered- up colony, which is now made queenless, when it will keep the drones from this selected brood as long as it has no lay- ing queen. This c
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