. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 308 American Hee Journal pure and without honey-dew; they must have good, dry, winter protection. These rules hold good for such a winter as the last. We did not lose very heavily. Platteville, Wis. Number of Eggs Laid by a Queen BY UR. 1-. C. MILLER. Schweizerische Bienenzeitung con- tains a very interesting article, page 257, written by Dr. Bruennich. He quotes Doolittle. without at all ques- tioning his authority, giving .jU'Kl eggs laid in a day by a queen whose colony however did not store so much honey as otner colonies with queens less pro- lif
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 308 American Hee Journal pure and without honey-dew; they must have good, dry, winter protection. These rules hold good for such a winter as the last. We did not lose very heavily. Platteville, Wis. Number of Eggs Laid by a Queen BY UR. 1-. C. MILLER. Schweizerische Bienenzeitung con- tains a very interesting article, page 257, written by Dr. Bruennich. He quotes Doolittle. without at all ques- tioning his authority, giving .jU'Kl eggs laid in a day by a queen whose colony however did not store so much honey as otner colonies with queens less pro- lific. Dr. Bruennich thinks, however, that in America, where heavy yields are obtained, there must be a heavier drain on the strength of a colony, and so a greater amount of brood reared. Of course, he says, with this greater demand on the (lueen her life must be shortened, and so it is credible that in America a queen is no longer profitable in her third year, while in Switzerland she still performs in a satisfactory manner her maternal duties in her fourth year. (Dr. Bruennich, although they may be , tliere are not lacking queens here still doing good work in the fourth year.) Last year he took numerous meas- urements of different colonies. He obtained the contents of each comb by ? multiplying together the two diameters of the ellipse of brood and then multi- plying that product by .8. In his best colony brood-rearing began about Feb. 10. (This was no doubt outdoors, wliere brood-rearing begins earlier than in the cellar.) The amount of brood, small at first, remained moder- ate throughout March, ascended with great rapidity throughout April, and held its ma.\ium throughout May. Then a rapid decline throughout June to less than half the maximum, continuing to decline less rapidly tliroughout July, increasing slightly to the middle of August, then declining rapidly from the beginning to the middle of Sep- tember, when it ceased entirely. But the bees were fed in Augu
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