. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 352 October, 1915. American l^ee Journal stands cell building, and I eet loo percent queens; at least I have so far. What do you think of this plan of netting good queens ^ 3. Have you ever had this to occur, treat a swarm on the put-up plan, and after two weeks they swarm out with a youni; queen and leave the old queen in the hive ? 1 was very much surprised to see this just re- cently. I found only one cell in the hive, and that one was the one which was hatched and the young queen came forth with the swarm. The hive was full of brood, but no other
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 352 October, 1915. American l^ee Journal stands cell building, and I eet loo percent queens; at least I have so far. What do you think of this plan of netting good queens ^ 3. Have you ever had this to occur, treat a swarm on the put-up plan, and after two weeks they swarm out with a youni; queen and leave the old queen in the hive ? 1 was very much surprised to see this just re- cently. I found only one cell in the hive, and that one was the one which was hatched and the young queen came forth with the swarm. The hive was full of brood, but no other queen-cell was visible. 1 treated them by the put-up plan. I found the old queen which was clipped in the parent hive. Indiana. .Answers -i. Generally, after a colony has been treated by the "put-up" plan, there will be no more swarming for the season, but you can never be certain of it. Yet it is a rare thine that a colony swarms a third time, as in your case. Yet I should not be much afraid to breed from such a queen if the colony greatly exceeds other colonies in storing. 2. Your plan of getting queens is good, and is given in "Fifty Years Among the Bees," only I do not take brood from three different colonies. Instead of that I take one or more frames of brood from the best stock. Unless you have three colonies that are equal in worth, your plan will not give as good queens I think they are young bees. What is the trouble? Norfolk, Neb. If you write Frank C. Pel- lett, of Atlantic. Iowa, he can probably do something toward informing you in the line you desire. He is Iowa's foulbrood inspec- tor, a man of whom Iowa ought to be proud. 2. Probably you will do well to leave the bees where they are until they swarm next year, then hive the swarm in an up-to-date hive, and 2i days later break up the old hive. 3. Likely the work of the bee-moth or wax- worm. They are quite troublesome with weak colonies of black bees, but Italians keep them under co
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