. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. mg. 2. few bee-keepers are acquainted. Now the four rows of cells, as illustrated, show all the correct indications of first-class work done by bees. You will see that every cell is large, long and heavily waxed. This latter feature is the strong- est indication that the occupant of each cell is as good as can be reared. This batch of queen-cells was the last built in my apiary in the season of 1902. Had they been started earlier in the season twice as many cell-cups would have been started. Two powerful colonies of bees were used to complete the cell
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. mg. 2. few bee-keepers are acquainted. Now the four rows of cells, as illustrated, show all the correct indications of first-class work done by bees. You will see that every cell is large, long and heavily waxed. This latter feature is the strong- est indication that the occupant of each cell is as good as can be reared. This batch of queen-cells was the last built in my apiary in the season of 1902. Had they been started earlier in the season twice as many cell-cups would have been started. Two powerful colonies of bees were used to complete the cells, as the bees that start the cell-cups are not allowed by the system to do so. The bees that start the cups work only 24 hours on them. Then about a dozen of the cups are given to the most powerful colonies in the yard to finish up. Who on earth knows of a better system of rearing queens 7 Speak right up and let us all know. I have experimented in this line nearly half a century, but I know of nothing so good, nor do I know of any method that will come up to it. /can rear better queens this ivay than 'tis possible to rear un- der natural swarming. One writer says, " No good queens are reared except in cases where the queen drops an e^g in a ; I know better, for years of experience, that but very few queens are reared from cell-cups. Surely they are not in the natural way. Now and then a cell-cup can be found at about swarm- ing-time that has an egg in it. But there is no evidence in any case that the cell-cup was first formed and the egg put in it by the queen. I have seen an egg in some very shal- low worker-cells. At swarming time, when the bees come across such eggs they start up a cell cup at that point. I have seen queen-cells built out on the face of solid brood, in the center of a comb. When there happened to be a cell with only an egg in it when the bees were seized with the swarming fever, and that egg was used from which to rear a queen, there was
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