The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . ondgeneration; and when we select light-coloredbees or queens for several successive gener-ations, if we are not careful we shall have aworker progeny lacking as honey-gatherers,and in ability to endure. By selection, wecan get almost any thing we want, and thatquite speedily with bees, for we can producesevera
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . ondgeneration; and when we select light-coloredbees or queens for several successive gener-ations, if we are not careful we shall have aworker progeny lacking as honey-gatherers,and in ability to endure. By selection, wecan get almost any thing we want, and thatquite speedily with bees, for we can produceseveral generations in a single season, ifneed be. It is said in the South, that they have twovarieties of the common or black bee, but itis quite likely they are one and the samething, for be^s in the same neighborhoodvary much in color; the bees of one colonymay be almost a brown, while in anotherthey are almost black. I shall speak, in thisbook, of but two kinds in particular — theblack, or common, and the Italian. HOW BEES GROW^ During warm weather, while your beesare gathering holiey, open your hive in themiddle of the day, and i)ut in the center aframe containing a sheet of fdn.; examine itevery night, morning and noon, until yousee effffs in the cells. If von imt it l»etween. A QUEENS ECiG UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. two combs containing brood, you will verylikely find eggs in the cells the next day. BEES. 47 BEES. If you have never seen an egg that is to pro- duce a bee, you may have to look very sharpthe first time, for they are white like polish-ed ivory, and scarcely larger than one of theperiods in this print. They will be seen inthe center of the cell attached to the combby one end. The egg under the microscopehas much the appearance of the cut. Itis covered, as you notice, with a sort of lace-like penciling, or net-work, it might proper-ly be called. As soon as you discover eggs,mark down the date. If the weather is fa-vorable, these eggs will hatch out in about 3days or a
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