. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. le (§ee-)\eepeps' |\eviecL A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Iqterests of HoqeLj Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL VIIL FLINT, MICHIGAN, AUG. 10. 1895. NO. 8. Work at ]V[icliigan.'s Experimental ^piarv. B. li. TAYLOR, APIARIST. THK ECONOMY OF THE HIVE. rnHE great ma- l' jority of bee- keepers to whom this bulletin will f;o have little knowledge of the internal workings of the hive, if I may judge from the numerous questions put to me on this point, and the intelli- gent and successful management of bees depends so much
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. le (§ee-)\eepeps' |\eviecL A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Iqterests of HoqeLj Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL VIIL FLINT, MICHIGAN, AUG. 10. 1895. NO. 8. Work at ]V[icliigan.'s Experimental ^piarv. B. li. TAYLOR, APIARIST. THK ECONOMY OF THE HIVE. rnHE great ma- l' jority of bee- keepers to whom this bulletin will f;o have little knowledge of the internal workings of the hive, if I may judge from the numerous questions put to me on this point, and the intelli- gent and successful management of bees depends so much upon a thorough knowl- edge of this that a few words upon it, which may serve to stimulate inquiry on the part of the novice, thougli they may disclose nothing new to the skilled bee-keeper, will be a fitting close to this annual report. In a normal colony are three kinds of bees: the queen or mother bee which pro- duces all the eggs from which all the others, at least all the workers, originate ; the work- ers which are partially developed females, and the drones or the male bees which some- times originate from the eggs of what are called laying workers. Each of these three. kinds requires for its proper development to be reared in a different sized cell from the others. The drone and the worker are rear- ed in the cells of ordinary comb, but the cells required for the former are about one- fourth inch in diameter while those for the latter are about one-fifth of an inch. For the production of a queen, on the other hand, a special cell is required and such are seldom seen in the hive except when there is a desire on the part of the bees to produce queens either for the purpose of swarming or to replace and old. Injured or failing one. These cells first appear in the shape of a small acron cup, on the lower edge or side of comb where there is an inch more or less of vacant space below, with the opening downwards. These incipient cells may of- ten be seen when there is no pres
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