. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 370 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. hive I bored two or three >4-inch holes to permit the queens and drones to fly inside of the tent. These rear entrances were kept closed for a week or ten days after the hives had been placed in position, in order to get the workers accustomed to using the front or outside entrance; the idea being to try and prevent the workers from flying in the cage, so as to leave it entirely for the queens and d~ones, I succeeded in getting queen cells started in full colonies, and also secured an abundance of drones by catching them w
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 370 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. hive I bored two or three >4-inch holes to permit the queens and drones to fly inside of the tent. These rear entrances were kept closed for a week or ten days after the hives had been placed in position, in order to get the workers accustomed to using the front or outside entrance; the idea being to try and prevent the workers from flying in the cage, so as to leave it entirely for the queens and d~ones, I succeeded in getting queen cells started in full colonies, and also secured an abundance of drones by catching them with the Alley trap and putting them in the hives in the cage; but this I am now convinced was a mistake, as they worried themselves to death trying to get out through the zinc at the front entrance. I was fortunate enough, upon looking through some of my strongest colonies, to find several frames contain- ing sealed drone brood. This I trans- ferred to the hives in the cage, and soon had a fine lot of drones born in captivity. They soon learned the ropes, flew freely in the cage, and invariably returned to the hives at night; but, strange to say, many of the workers would come out in the cage, and cluster in little knots or bunches in the corners of the cage, and stay there until they died; but the drones seemed to know how to find their way back to the hives. The first lot of queens hatched out and disappeared. Just what became of them I do not know. I did not bother looking for them, but gave each colony a frame containing eggs and brood, and they proceeded to rear another lot of queens In due time these hatched, and 07ie was fertilized and commenced to lay. The others, some of which I saw, not having commenced to lay, and the drones having died off, it being too late for further experiments this season, I doubled up the nuclei for winter. While the thing has not proved an en- tire success, neither can it be said to have been an entire failure. There are several things to be
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