Gleanings in bee culture . nge if, with the divisible-biood-chamberhive, or some other modern appliance, wewould simplify modern practice? When I was a boy the mowing-machineswe used on the farm were heavy and bothcrude and complicated as compared withthe ones now in use; we compare the old andthe new, and wonder why we did not thinkof the ideas used in the new—they are sosimple. We want to simplify hives andmethods. The old appliances taught usmany things, and now that much more ofthe nature and habits of the bee is knownwe can shorten and simplify methods andget better results. Loveland, Col
Gleanings in bee culture . nge if, with the divisible-biood-chamberhive, or some other modern appliance, wewould simplify modern practice? When I was a boy the mowing-machineswe used on the farm were heavy and bothcrude and complicated as compared withthe ones now in use; we compare the old andthe new, and wonder why we did not thinkof the ideas used in the new—they are sosimple. We want to simplify hives andmethods. The old appliances taught usmany things, and now that much more ofthe nature and habits of the bee is knownwe can shorten and simplify methods andget better results. Loveland, Col. In a former issue we alluded to the news-paper furore over the death of a boy, allegedto be the result of a bee-sting. Our repre-sentative in Philadelphia now informs us thatthe report of the post mortem by the doctorsof Frankford hospital has been issued, andthe finding is that the immediate cause ofdeath was cerebral tetanus, and that the stingof the bees had nothing to do with it. 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 1211. TWO QUEENS IN ONE COLONY; ITS BEARINGON THE SWARMING QUESTION. 1 have been much interested in the twoqueens in a colony discussion. I ran acolony last summer this way: I put queen-excluding zinc between the hrst and secondstory, with a queen in each story. Theymade one of the strongest colonies that Ihave ever seen, and did not oiier to uniting queens 1 think we must makethem acquire the same odor. I use somewindow-screen between for the hrst twenty-four hours. Before I used the two queens in one colo-ny I took a queen, confined her in a mailing-cage without attendants or food, and thenintroduced another queen. For three weeksthey fed her through the screen, and at theend of that period she was as lively as ever,while the free queen was working as convinced me that the workers wouldaccept two or more queens—any way, if thequeens were separated, so I put queen-ex-cluding zinc between, thinking that onequeen in each story would bring
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