. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tennessee Queens. Daughters of Select Imported Italian, Select long-tongued (Moore's), and Select,Straight 5-band Queens. Bred 3% miles apart, and mated to select droneP. No bees owned with- in 2% miles; none impure within 3, and but few within 5 miles. No disease. 30 years' experience. WARRANTED QUEENS, 75 cents each ; TESTED, $ each. Dis- count on large orders. Contracts with dealers a spe- cialty. Discount after July 1st Send for circular. JOHN M. DAVIS, 9A26t SPRING HILL, TENN. To Boston and Return at One Fare for the round trip from Chicago v
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tennessee Queens. Daughters of Select Imported Italian, Select long-tongued (Moore's), and Select,Straight 5-band Queens. Bred 3% miles apart, and mated to select droneP. No bees owned with- in 2% miles; none impure within 3, and but few within 5 miles. No disease. 30 years' experience. WARRANTED QUEENS, 75 cents each ; TESTED, $ each. Dis- count on large orders. Contracts with dealers a spe- cialty. Discount after July 1st Send for circular. JOHN M. DAVIS, 9A26t SPRING HILL, TENN. To Boston and Return at One Fare for the round trip from Chicago via Nickel Plate Road, for Christian Sci- entists' meeting in June. Tickets on sale June 2Sth, 26th and 27th, with ex- tended return limit of Aug. 1st. Stop- over at Niagara Falls, in either direc- tion, without extra charge, and at New York, returning, on payment of fee of $ No excess fare charged on any of our trains. Write John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 113 Adams St., room 298, Chicago, for detailed information. 'Phone Central 2057. 6—22ASt ing in more, and temperature and humidity are high. These two latter items should re- ceive special attention, and I cannot do better than quote from Cowan's " ; On page 60, quoting Newport, he says; "Tem- perature of the brood-nest in the swarming season averages 9fi degrees, while in August it is seldom over SO degrees, or perhaps 86 de- grees, even in the middle of the day when outer temperature is often more than 7S de- ; He then proceeds to give the scien- tific reasons therefor. At swarming-time the air of the hive is saturated with moisture, a matter almost never alluded to as a requisite for successful queen-rearing, whereas it is one of the essentials. It is due to such causes as above that Dr. Gallup's "rousing colonies" produce fine queens, not to any supposed "umbilical cord," the latter being merely the last " cast " of the larva with its silken attachme
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