. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. .hino, t!tl4. American Hae Journal comb with starters, and it's expensive busi- ness to support a lot of useless drones. 3. No. it doesn't seem to; at least they build out the comb the same as if no wire were present, and the cells where the wires are occupied with honey, pollen or brood just the same as if there were no wires. 4. Eggs are likely to be laid in drone-cells as soon as there is a considerable How. and drones will appear 24 days later. Lazy Bees—Producing Chunk Honey—Rearing Queens and Drones from Same Colony i. Last season I had la^y col
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. .hino, t!tl4. American Hae Journal comb with starters, and it's expensive busi- ness to support a lot of useless drones. 3. No. it doesn't seem to; at least they build out the comb the same as if no wire were present, and the cells where the wires are occupied with honey, pollen or brood just the same as if there were no wires. 4. Eggs are likely to be laid in drone-cells as soon as there is a considerable How. and drones will appear 24 days later. Lazy Bees—Producing Chunk Honey—Rearing Queens and Drones from Same Colony i. Last season I had la^y colonies that did .tot do anything but rear bees. They were runnineover with bees, but did not swarm nor store any surplus honey. Would it be best to give them another queen ? 2 How would it work for chunk honey to put on an extra body of Hoffman brood- frames with brood foundation or would it be better to use section foundation ? 1. Would you advise rearing drones and queens from the same mother ? 4- Do bees store more honey and quicker in 2 story hives than they would in supers, and do you advise 2-story hives for honey to be sold as chunk honey ? West ViRciNiA. Answers—I. It is possible that there may have been some excuse for the bees doing nothing, but if other colonies were doing well at the same time the likelihood is that the bees were at fault, in which case it would be well to give a queen of better stock. 2. The thinner foundation would be better for table honey, and yet some have reported that the heavier foundation was thinned down by the bees. It would not be a bad plan to try each, and then you would know better what to do in future. 3. It will be better to rear queens from your very best colony and drones from a few of the next best. Yet if you should try to rear queens and drones both from the same colony it is not certain that much harm would come from it. for the young queens would be likely to meet drones from other colonies, perhaps from a colony a mile
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