. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 100 T'MW MB^mmi^mm mmM l>oolillle"s Nc«- HooU on " Queen- Rearing" receives excellent endorsement in New Zealand. The Australasian Dee Journal for December contains the fol- lowing : I have recently been trying Doolittle's plan of queen-rearing, and although I have only given it one trial, it was quite success- ful. The cells, twelve in number, were cast on a smooth piece of glass that just fitted the bottom of a natural queen-cell. In them I placed a small quantity of royal jelly, and on this I transferred an ordi- nary w
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 100 T'MW MB^mmi^mm mmM l>oolillle"s Nc«- HooU on " Queen- Rearing" receives excellent endorsement in New Zealand. The Australasian Dee Journal for December contains the fol- lowing : I have recently been trying Doolittle's plan of queen-rearing, and although I have only given it one trial, it was quite success- ful. The cells, twelve in number, were cast on a smooth piece of glass that just fitted the bottom of a natural queen-cell. In them I placed a small quantity of royal jelly, and on this I transferred an ordi- nary worker larva aliout thirty hours old, with the aid of a pointed quill. The cells were then fixed with hot wax to halt a bottom-bar, and inserted in the cen- tre of a comb from which a piece had been cut about the size of a man's hand, which was then placed in a two-story Langstroth hive, the queen being confined to the bot- tom box by means of perforated zinc. The bees immediately commenced working on these embryo cells, and in due time I cut out ten fine queen-cells, which were placed in a nursery, with the result that eight emerged. At the same time I tried a new plan of my own, which 1 prefer to Doolittle's, for the reason that the delicate operation of trans- ferring larva? has not to be performed. These gave me queens equal to Doolittle's in appearance and number, although the cells were not so sightly. However, as I am still carrying on my experiments with both methods, I prefer to say no more about it until the end of the season, when 1 will fully describe my own method. How- ever, I have proved to my satisfaction that it is not necessary to remove the reigning queen, in order to induce the bees to construct cells and rear queens. R. F. HOLXERMANIV. It aBiords us no little pleasure to give, in these columns, the likeness, as well as a short biography, of our friend and co- worker, Mr. R. F. Holtermann, of Romney, Ont., Canada. It is seldom that one so young in life come
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