Gleanings in bee culture . can follow, because the colonies are withoutlaying queens for some ten days or a fort-night. Also, there is but a small percentageof loss in wedding-flights Avhen virgins flyfrom full colonies. I have never tried to see how many goodqueens can be reared by this method. Ihave said from fifty to one hundred; but Ireally believe that a powerful colony couldeasily give two hundred or even more. Itwould be no task at all for a colony to feed8000 worker larvae for four or fi\e days, andit would not be unfair to assume that thefeeding of 300 queens would be equallyeasy. In
Gleanings in bee culture . can follow, because the colonies are withoutlaying queens for some ten days or a fort-night. Also, there is but a small percentageof loss in wedding-flights Avhen virgins flyfrom full colonies. I have never tried to see how many goodqueens can be reared by this method. Ihave said from fifty to one hundred; but Ireally believe that a powerful colony couldeasily give two hundred or even more. Itwould be no task at all for a colony to feed8000 worker larvae for four or fi\e days, andit would not be unfair to assume that thefeeding of 300 queens would be equallyeasy. In my opinion the number is limitedrather by the beekeepers ability to get thecells grafted with sufficient rapidity so thatthey may be all equally cared for. One statement more is desirable beforeclosing. It will be observed that the ar-rangement of frames and cell cups is suchthat they lie bunched within the midst of agieat cluster of bees. Much of the secretof success is in concentration. Norwichtown, Ct. JULY 15, 1916 595. One of the elasscs iu zoology at the Geimantown High School,gained of one of the most reiiiarkahle phases of insect life. A a intimate knowledge has been BEES FOR HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS BY ADELENE H. JACOBS Tliat beekeeping cau be incorporated in acourse in elementary zoology has been dem-onstrated at the Germantown High Schoolfor girls in Philadelphia. It was a notableday in September, 19]5, when a colony ofItalian bees was housed in a double-walledhive on the lawn outside the zoological lab-oratory. Remarkably fearless, the studentsgathered around the hive and received theirfirst instructions in the life-history and ac-tivities of the bee. Instead of reading about Apis mellifieaand looking at museum specimens of queens,drones, and workers, our pupils in groupsof ten, protected by veils of their ownmaking, began their study of insects at thebuzzing hive. Here we watched the forag-ers returning with their balls of goldenpollen; learned to distinguish the kinds
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