. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Entered at thd Poat-Offlco at Cbtcago as Second-Class Mall-Matter.) Published Weekly at $ a Year, by George W. York & Co., 334 Dearborn Street. GEORGE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL,, APRIL 18,1907 VoL XLVII—No, 16 ^mm^^i,^'. editorial ^o and Comments Fertilizine-tlives for Queen°Rearlng Probably there is very little dissent in any quarter from the belief that to get the best queens the queen-cells should be started by a strong force of bees, and continued under such care at least until the cells are sealed. This can be the more readily afforde
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Entered at thd Poat-Offlco at Cbtcago as Second-Class Mall-Matter.) Published Weekly at $ a Year, by George W. York & Co., 334 Dearborn Street. GEORGE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL,, APRIL 18,1907 VoL XLVII—No, 16 ^mm^^i,^'. editorial ^o and Comments Fertilizine-tlives for Queen°Rearlng Probably there is very little dissent in any quarter from the belief that to get the best queens the queen-cells should be started by a strong force of bees, and continued under such care at least until the cells are sealed. This can be the more readily afforded, as up to the time the lirst young queen emerges a number of cells can be cared for by the same lot of bees. But after a young queen emerges from her cell, and from that time till she be- gins to lay, she does not cheerfully brook the presence of anything in the shape of a rival; and, moreover, there does not seem the same need of a strong force of bees as during the earlier period ot her development, so fertiliz- ing-hives much smaller than the ordinary hive have been used, or else a full-sized hive without the full eomplement of frames. While some are confident that so-called baby nuclei, with no more combs-urface than that of a one-pound section, will produce as good results as anything larger, others are skeptical. Even among the ranks of those who were at first enthusiastic as to baby nuclei, there are those who seem to have a leaning toward something larger; one of them, Mr. E. R. Root, now advocating some- thing by no means so " baby " as it might be. Instead of a single comb the size of a pound section, he now advocates two combs, each of them one-third the size of a Langstroth frame. This is getting back very nearly to the small fertilizing-hives used by Adam Grimm and others more than 40 years ago. Mr. Root has virtually a larger mass of bees by having two of these nuclei side by side in the same hive, thus giving the advantage of mutual heat. While som
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