. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^AAA A. (Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matterj Published Weekly at 91>00 a ¥ear by Oeorge 1¥. ¥ork Jk. Co., 334 Uearbom St. OBORQE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 20,1905 VoL XLV—Na 29 /T (fbttorial Hotes ^ (Eommcnts =\ \= J' Locality in Bee-Keeping A ffcw years ago it became somewhat the fashion to make a joke of the matter of locality, possibly because some attributed to locality things not fairly due to it. But its real importance can not be pooh-poohed out of existence. The fact that in Australia bees are busily
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^AAA A. (Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matterj Published Weekly at 91>00 a ¥ear by Oeorge 1¥. ¥ork Jk. Co., 334 Uearbom St. OBORQE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 20,1905 VoL XLV—Na 29 /T (fbttorial Hotes ^ (Eommcnts =\ \= J' Locality in Bee-Keeping A ffcw years ago it became somewhat the fashion to make a joke of the matter of locality, possibly because some attributed to locality things not fairly due to it. But its real importance can not be pooh-poohed out of existence. The fact that in Australia bees are busily working at Christmas, and are in winter quarters July 4, is a mere matter of locality; as also the fact that in the southern part of the United States bees are at work weeks before they are out of winter quarters in the North. Bui differences of locality are not alone shown by parallels of latitude. Differences of flora or other differences may be such that a plan of work in a certain place may be excel- lent, while not at all appropriate in another place only a little distance away. For ex- ample, a bee-keeper in a part of Illinois where clover is the chief, if not the sole, source of surplus, might be somewhat puzzled upon I reading of P. H. Elwood's plan of manage- ment, and would be likely to say: " I don't quite see how I could carry that out. I'm to dequeen no colony, if I under- stand correctly, until it is found making prep- arations for swarming. Then the cells are to be removed just before they would hatch, which would be in 10 days or more. Then a cell is given, and it will be another 10 days before the young queen will lay, or something like 3 weeks after the colony is dequeened. Then we are told, ' This operation should be timed so the young queen will begin to lay at the lime of the opening of the main harvest.' That is, the dequeening must take place when the bees are found preparing to swarm, and it must be about 3 weeks before the opening of the main
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