. Dadant system of beekeeping. Bees. DADAXT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING sufficiently prolific, we will ascertain that many queens can and do lay 3,500 and even more eggs per day, for a number of weeks. To count the number of cells it is only necessary to measure the number of square inches of brood surface, remembering that each square inch represents between 27 and 28 workers. This heavy brood laying lasts only during the spring and early summer months, of course. In the fall the laying is reduced and in the winter it ceases. It is important that we should enable the queen to lay to the utmost of he
. Dadant system of beekeeping. Bees. DADAXT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING sufficiently prolific, we will ascertain that many queens can and do lay 3,500 and even more eggs per day, for a number of weeks. To count the number of cells it is only necessary to measure the number of square inches of brood surface, remembering that each square inch represents between 27 and 28 workers. This heavy brood laying lasts only during the spring and early summer months, of course. In the fall the laying is reduced and in the winter it ceases. It is important that we should enable the queen to lay to the utmost of her capacity for the time when her bees, or the bees hatching from her eggs, will be able to harvest a crop. Like a good general, we must marshal our forces for the battle neither too early, nor too late. With bees, it is more important than with men, because bees have but a very limited time of usefulness. In order to illustrate this, it is necessary to say a few words about the Worker-Bee The worker-bee is an undeveloped female. Had the young female larva, when hatching, been fed with milky pap during the whole time of her existence as larva, and had she been placed in a spacious queen- cell, she would have been a queen. But only one queen is needed in a hive. So the female larvae, and the drone larvae as well, are hatched in small cells and fed with the milky pap, or royal jelly, during only the first three days of life; after that time, the food is coarser and composed of pollen, or bee-bread as it is often called, and honey. The result is an entirely different being from what it would have been as a fully developed insect:. Fig. 5. Head of the worker bee (magnified). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. , American Bee Journal
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