. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. I907-] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. REARING QUEENS AND FEELING NUCLEI. 267 C. W. DAYTON. THE ONLY remedy for the lack of love for queen-rearing is queen-rearing. We should rear queens anyway. Rear them in spite of yourself. Make it become a habit. When the habit is formed it will be transformed into love for queen-rear- ing. Twenty-four years ago I began to rear queens by the scientific method devised by Mr. Alley. The previous season I spent much time dippinc: larvae into naturally constructed cell cups with a toothpick. From that day to this I have
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. I907-] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. REARING QUEENS AND FEELING NUCLEI. 267 C. W. DAYTON. THE ONLY remedy for the lack of love for queen-rearing is queen-rearing. We should rear queens anyway. Rear them in spite of yourself. Make it become a habit. When the habit is formed it will be transformed into love for queen-rear- ing. Twenty-four years ago I began to rear queens by the scientific method devised by Mr. Alley. The previous season I spent much time dippinc: larvae into naturally constructed cell cups with a toothpick. From that day to this I have been adding to my stock of knowledge. Just last year I unearthed one of the finest nuggets colony I examined about one-half of its brood was dead. Of about forty colonies examined that day, there were none that did not have a large share of their brood dead. I noticed also that, in the long rows of hives every one which contained a full col- ony had a cluster of bees on the front of the hive the size of a man's hat. It was so day almost, regardless of the weather. In my own apiary I could not find one dead larva, and there were not a quart of bees clus- tering out. Yet my hives were only one-half as large as his. When I re- moved the covers to his supers there. yet brought to light. I had realized, or, I may say, almost dreamed that the nugget was there—and it was ; but I never had been in the right position to make its discovery com- plete. In the year A. D. 1901, I took the job of Italianizing an apiary of 125 col- onies for a neighbor. From tha* time until igo6 they were allowed to do their own requeening. The owner of this apiary lives some fifty miles dis- tant. At the beginning of the honey harvest he wrote to me to visit his apiary to see when he would need to come to do the extracting. The first were only a few scattering bees scampering about the combs in the upper stories. The way the bees scampered showed that conditions were not right. They acted as if they
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