Gleanings in bee culture . ecloth is used instead of the queen-excluderthe queen may be kept several days in goodcondition. Having brood in all stages is amistake. Nothing but sealed brood shouldbe given to thesecolonies. We do not like the plan of keeping colo-nies queenless all the season. Fertile work-ers are very apt to get started. We preferto make a colony queenless and leave alltheir brood with them. At the end of sixdays, destroy all the queen-cells they havestarted; then graft into them every dayuntil the brood»is all hatched. Then we givethem a laying queen. These colonies get back t
Gleanings in bee culture . ecloth is used instead of the queen-excluderthe queen may be kept several days in goodcondition. Having brood in all stages is amistake. Nothing but sealed brood shouldbe given to thesecolonies. We do not like the plan of keeping colo-nies queenless all the season. Fertile work-ers are very apt to get started. We preferto make a colony queenless and leave alltheir brood with them. At the end of sixdays, destroy all the queen-cells they havestarted; then graft into them every dayuntil the brood»is all hatched. Then we givethem a laying queen. These colonies get back to a normal condition in a few weeks,and go thru the winter in good shape. Ifgrafti]ig colonies are kept queenless all theseason they are not worth wintering. A Swarm that would Not Stay Hived. Here is a swarm that I hived twice lastsummer, but the bees refused to stay wherethey belong. The third time I found thequeen and caged her, and shook the beesupon the frames, and that time they stayed. St. Paul, Minn. A. W. A bunch of rebellious bees that did not know whenthey were well off. A Half-starved Queen Received by Mail RunDirectly into a Hive. The last week in May I took one brood-comb and queen and put it in a new hive,and requeened the old colony having theremaining seven brood-combs. The newqueen was accepted, and allowed to stayfour or five days, and then, to my surprise,when looking to see if she had any broodstarted, I found no brood, but two queen-cells, evidently built from young brood ofthe old queen. I cut out these cells, butfailed to find the new queen, which I hadseen three or four days before. A second queen came in by mail late oneafternoon. I put her away over night, andwhen I looked at her the next morning I 614 found a couple of dead bees stuck in theopening of the food-compartment of thecage. Most of the rest of the bees hadstarved except the queen and a few beeswhose lives I saved by feeding honey atonce. There seemed to be only one thing to do—t
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