. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 354 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL October that time the brood from the last eggs will be sealed. But bad weather may delay the issu- ing of the swarm a day or more, and if the queen lays during that delay it will leave un- sealed brood after the first virgin has emerged- 3. Drones might be because of much drone- comb, but the rapid falling off in numbers ol workers is more easily accounted for by saying the bees have swarmed. 4. One would hardly think so. 5. Better take them away, and return later if the colony becomes strong enough to work on a later flow. 6.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 354 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL October that time the brood from the last eggs will be sealed. But bad weather may delay the issu- ing of the swarm a day or more, and if the queen lays during that delay it will leave un- sealed brood after the first virgin has emerged- 3. Drones might be because of much drone- comb, but the rapid falling off in numbers ol workers is more easily accounted for by saying the bees have swarmed. 4. One would hardly think so. 5. Better take them away, and return later if the colony becomes strong enough to work on a later flow. 6. Abundance of super-room is quite a fac- tor in the prevention of swarming, but no amount of room in supers will prevent swarm- ing if enough other conditions favor swarming. 7. It is possible that all the queens went with the swarm; yet one may have been left who was lost on her wedding trip. Queen Rearing I understand that to raise a queen one should use larvae less than 3 days old. and since it takes 3 days for an egg to hatch into a larva, should the egg be taken for queen rearing? OHIO. Answer.—Evidently you are counting that the age of a larva is counted from the time the egg is laid. The age of a chicken is count- ed from the time it is hatched out of the egg, and it's the same way with a larva. It's gen- erally considered better to give a larva not more than two days old, and it's all right to give an egg. Foulbrood Combs 1. vVould it be safe to use combs taken out of a European foulbrood hive after they have been extracted? 2. Could those frames be used again after combs were cut out? VERMONT. Answers.—1. In an apiary where there is already European fouulbrood, I wouldn't hesi- tate at all to use such combs. They are likely safe enough in any apiary, yet in an apiary where Europeon foulbrood has not yet ap- peared I'd rather not use anything that ever had the disease within a mile. 2. I have used such frames after boiling them' in lye. Peas—White Clover—Vetch 1
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