Gleanings in bee culture . o. 2 and bees fromcolony No. 1 to go into the hive fact that the bees that have been queen-less for some time find a hive of brood whenthey expected nothing but frames of honeycauses them to take most kindly to thechanged conditions. I have never lost aqueen this way, even with fertile workers intho hive. I usually make this change about every ten days, and about the sixth day I shakea few frames of bees, about three to-^acolony starting cells. In this way the colo-nies are not run down. Some days ago I had one of these queenlessand broodless colonies st
Gleanings in bee culture . o. 2 and bees fromcolony No. 1 to go into the hive fact that the bees that have been queen-less for some time find a hive of brood whenthey expected nothing but frames of honeycauses them to take most kindly to thechanged conditions. I have never lost aqueen this way, even with fertile workers intho hive. I usually make this change about every ten days, and about the sixth day I shakea few frames of bees, about three to-^acolony starting cells. In this way the colo-nies are not run down. Some days ago I had one of these queenlessand broodless colonies start 102 cells in oneday. A colony that has been without aqueen and brood for about three hours willdo better work than one that has beenqueenless for six days. At any rate, giveit a trial. Spring Hill, Tenn. Ben G. Davis. An Apparatus to Destroy Drones. I am sending you a drawing which repre-sents a drone-trap. This will serve to pre-vent swarming, provided the wings of thequeen have been clipped. Worker B^E ExitAND Escape. No. 1 is a perforated zinc sheet, allowingthe workers to pass thru, but not the drones,which are thus obliged to pass up to thepyramid, and on thru the tube 3 and to thetank 4, which latter contains as the passage from No. 3 to thetank is made of perforated zinc, the workershave time to escape, and the queen, whosewings have been clipped, cannot pass upthru pyramid 2. The walls of the lattershould be of glass on the inside and tin onthe outside, to avoid the light, while escapeNo. 3 should be of sheet zinc, perforated. Tiniote, Argentina. Francisco Peroy. When is a Select Queen Not a Select Queen? I am interested in Arthur Williams articleon page 5^8, July 1. I wish the readers ofGleanings would express themselves in re-gard to the advertising of untested queens. Untested queens should be sold as untest-ed, and there should not be two grades ofuntested. One of the poorest-looking untest-ed queens I ever received proved to be oneof the best.
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