. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1909. American Vae Journal started as a queen-cell and the egg put into it afterward. Now the important point to note is that when a laying queen is present in a hive, any queen-cell started will be a pre-constructed one, whather intended for swarming or supersedure. That is, the cell-cup will be tirst built, and the egg put into it afterward. So when Mr. Burke gave a colony brood from his best queen from which to have cells started, leaving the queen in the hive in which such brood was placed, he itez'cr got a single cell tenanted itfith an eg
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1909. American Vae Journal started as a queen-cell and the egg put into it afterward. Now the important point to note is that when a laying queen is present in a hive, any queen-cell started will be a pre-constructed one, whather intended for swarming or supersedure. That is, the cell-cup will be tirst built, and the egg put into it afterward. So when Mr. Burke gave a colony brood from his best queen from which to have cells started, leaving the queen in the hive in which such brood was placed, he itez'cr got a single cell tenanted itfith an egg or larva of his best stock, but al- ways from the queen present in the hive. Whether queens so reared were good or not, depended not upon the character of his best queen, but upon the charac- ter of the queen present in the colony which started the cells. It is true that when a freshly built comb is put in the center of a queenless colony, the bees are left at liberty to start cells on any of the other combs. But the bee-keeper is equally at liberty to reject all but the cells reared on the one comb of the best stock. The com- forting fact remains, however, that very few, if any, cells will be reared on any but the one comb that is given. There are two reasons, probably, for this: The bees prefer the soft, freshly built comb; and they also prefer to build cells on the edge of a comb where there is so much room. So if the beginner would succeed in getting queen-cells of the best stock, let him look out for two things; let him have his best queen in a nucleus—even if only temporarily—and let him remove the queen from the hive in which he desires to have the cells started. Of course, the latter queen may be returned in ID days, or sooner if the frame of cells is put in an upper story over an excluder to be Hqods -Ifertis The Editor's Silver (25th) Anniversary Yes, it was just 25 years on March 31st, that we arrived in the office of the American Bee Journal. That
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