. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 31fi THE AMERICAl^ BEE JOURNAL. Rearing Queens.—In your advice to Mr. A. L. Conger, Earlville, Iowa, in regard to rearing queens, you say: " Now take out the frames one at a time fi'om the hive removed, and shake and brush all the bees from the combs in front of tlie new hive, then replace the combs in the black colony and release the ; Now, I want to know what the- black colony is going to do for bees. I cannot under- stand that I'art of the instructions ; the balance before is plain and simple. Please explain, so that a beginner like
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 31fi THE AMERICAl^ BEE JOURNAL. Rearing Queens.—In your advice to Mr. A. L. Conger, Earlville, Iowa, in regard to rearing queens, you say: " Now take out the frames one at a time fi'om the hive removed, and shake and brush all the bees from the combs in front of tlie new hive, then replace the combs in the black colony and release the ; Now, I want to know what the- black colony is going to do for bees. I cannot under- stand that I'art of the instructions ; the balance before is plain and simple. Please explain, so that a beginner like myself will know what to do. White clover and poplar are in their prime here now ; about lialf my bees appear to be working on poplar, the other half on white clover. Mercury stands at 810 in the shade at 12 m. Bees are crowding out queens with honey. I am trying to get my neighbors to iise frame hives and Italianize, which some are making pi'eparations to do. J. A. P. Panchek. Paucher's Mills, Tenn., May 4,1S82. [In the confusion incident upon re- moving the black hive and lifting out the frames one at a time, you will find enough bees, young and old, will run down from the combs and remain in the old hive to perform maternal duties, and to these young bees will be added hourly as they emerge from the cells, which will each require but a few days to be duly qualilied as nurses. One principal object in brush- ing the combs in front of the new hive, is to get a fair proportion of the younger bees, which have not done lield work, in witli the older bees, to do certain drudge-work which they can best perform .^Ed.] Bees Light.—I have concluded to report this morning, as I have just linislied overhauling my bees, doub- ling up, feeding, etc. So far, the spring has been the most discouraging (except that of 1879) I have experi- enced in my bee-keeping—6 years last April. We have had an abundance of fruit bloom, but the weather has been so very unfavorable that our best col- o
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