. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 538 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Aug-. 23, 1900. CONDUCTED BY DR. O. O. MILLER. A/areng-o, Ul. [The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the Doctor to send answers by mail.— The "Premium Queens" Are Clipt. A correspondent writes that he received his premium queen all right, but is puzzled to know whether the one in the hive now is the same queen, as this is a clipt queen, and the one he received as a premium had whole wings. Another says his queen is clip
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 538 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Aug-. 23, 1900. CONDUCTED BY DR. O. O. MILLER. A/areng-o, Ul. [The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the Doctor to send answers by mail.— The "Premium Queens" Are Clipt. A correspondent writes that he received his premium queen all right, but is puzzled to know whether the one in the hive now is the same queen, as this is a clipt queen, and the one he received as a premium had whole wings. Another says his queen is clipt, and wants to know if I did it. At the request of the publishers, I have clipt the queens sent out. It would be a little less trouble to send them out with whole wings, but most nowadays prefer to have queens clipt, and it sometimes helps to decide the question whether the right queen is present. When a queen has her wings closely folded together, it is not so easy to tell she is clipt, but it is easily told when she spreads her wings, and that probably accounts for the correspondent thinking his queen was unclipt when received, and clipt when found later in the hive. To another question, I reply that I have not previously sent out queens to exceed perhaps half a dozen, rearing them merely for my own use, and that I now send out only as ordered thru the publishers of the American Bee Journal. C. C. Miller. .?-•-». Combs and Fixtures from a Paralytic Colony- Bees's Length of Life. 1. Would it be safe to use combs and fixtures taken from a colony that has bee-paralysis ? 2. Do you think the life of the worker-bee is prolonged during a period of enforced idleness in summer, when there is no honey or very little coming- in ? Minnbsot.\. Answers.—1. It is probably entirel}' safe. 2. Yes, a bee grows old not altogether according to the number of daj-s since it was born, but rather according to the amount of work it has done. Building Queen-Cells Over Drone-Eggs. To-day I sen
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