. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. FIG. THE FLOOD AT THE LOUIS WERNER APIARY the colony queenless for a few days, is mentioned as often sufficient, in treat- ing European foulbrood. Several queen rearing methods are given with insistence upon the neces- sity of rearing queens from choice stock of pure race, owing to the vari- ability of crosses. We find only one subject for criti- cism, and it is a matter of opinion in connection with the Dzierzon theory of parthenogenesis. As the discussion of this subject will require a statement of past experiences, we will give it a specia
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. FIG. THE FLOOD AT THE LOUIS WERNER APIARY the colony queenless for a few days, is mentioned as often sufficient, in treat- ing European foulbrood. Several queen rearing methods are given with insistence upon the neces- sity of rearing queens from choice stock of pure race, owing to the vari- ability of crosses. We find only one subject for criti- cism, and it is a matter of opinion in connection with the Dzierzon theory of parthenogenesis. As the discussion of this subject will require a statement of past experiences, we will give it a special mention in a future number. Some comments by Dr. Miller will also be given. Impoverisbed by Flood One of our well-known Illinois bee- keepers, Mr. Louis Werner, has been impoverished by the floods of the past summer. The accompanying engrav- ings show the extent of the loss. Fig- ure 1 represents the home. The water was 6)4 feet deep in it on Aug. 21. The torn down building next to it was his summer kitchen. The apiary of 75 col- onies was almost entirely destroyed. The honey house shown in Fig. 3 con- tained 650 pounds of comb honey and 400 pounds of extracted honey. This was lost as well as about 400 pounds still on the hives and 23 nuclei for queen-rearing. The water came so fast, he says, that they had no warning of the danger. The barn, shown in Fig. 2, was moved, as shown, upon the railroad track, and had to be torn down to be removed. The cut shows carpenters in the act of taking off the roof. Of the entire apiary only four or five hives were saved with a few bees in them. But they were queenless. The traps and implements saved from the flood are shown to the right of the house, in Fig. 1. All his bee-supplies are gone. The 400 pounds of extracted honey was in a tank, and this was tipped over when the honey house was. Fig. 2.—Louis Werner's Barn Moved up ON THE Railroad Track By the Flood moved by the water 100 feet. The depth of the water is shown on the house by th
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