. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 279 that can be lifted by one hand. I take a square box three or four inches deep, without top or bottom, or a fish kit without top or bottom, and fill with cement, same as is used for sidewalks. Before filling, place the receptacle on a loose board. For handles use any old piece of iron that is long enough to bend in shape. Imbed handle in cement as soon as mould is filled. These are very handy and beat a brick or flat rock a mile. DR. E. W. PARKER, Sutherland, Dr. Millers Answers- Send Questions either to the office
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 279 that can be lifted by one hand. I take a square box three or four inches deep, without top or bottom, or a fish kit without top or bottom, and fill with cement, same as is used for sidewalks. Before filling, place the receptacle on a loose board. For handles use any old piece of iron that is long enough to bend in shape. Imbed handle in cement as soon as mould is filled. These are very handy and beat a brick or flat rock a mile. DR. E. W. PARKER, Sutherland, Dr. Millers Answers- Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal or direct to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, Il\. He does not answer bee-keeoine Questions by mail. Breeding I. Why is it that I can't get an Italian queen to staj with me? I have ordered about a dozen queens and have not had any of them to stay; they would stay from a month to six weeks and disappear. I do not know where they go: do you? I guess they are hurt in 1. Let them have some drone-comb near center of the hrood-nest. 5. No, it blooms but once. The first \ it grows without blooming, the next year blooms, and then dies, root and branch. the and address of 2. Can you tell me the a reliable queen-hreeder in or close to my State? : Does ai, Italian queen raise pure Italian <lr<utes when her bees are crossed? 1. How do you get the queen to lay in drone cells that you want to rear drones from? 5. Does sweet clover bloom every year after n. Don't you think it would pay to order untested queens and select a breeder. ARKANSAS. Answers.—1. I don't know, and have little data to base a guess upon. A queen might be injured in the mail, but in that case she would hardly continue oil duty a month or more. If it were in swarming time I should say she might abscond with a swarm. Bees sometimes have queer streaks, and it i possible that it just happened that a number of o_ueens went wrong with you. and that the very next will go all right. 2. Those who adve
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