. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 22 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL January an excluder they are safe. The bc^s will not destroy them. If the cells are cut from the comb and put in a protector the; may be left in the brood-nest and never come to harm. In due time a young queen will be found laying in the hive. I realize that in making this asser- tion I am stating an opinion in con- flict with that of the best-known writers on this subject. For instance, in the March number of Gleanings, Mr. Doolittle wrote: "In a case of supersedure the bees pay very little attention to the cells except t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 22 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL January an excluder they are safe. The bc^s will not destroy them. If the cells are cut from the comb and put in a protector the; may be left in the brood-nest and never come to harm. In due time a young queen will be found laying in the hive. I realize that in making this asser- tion I am stating an opinion in con- flict with that of the best-known writers on this subject. For instance, in the March number of Gleanings, Mr. Doolittle wrote: "In a case of supersedure the bees pay very little attention to the cells except to sut5- ply them with royal jelly, allowing the mother queen to go about them as she ; Here in the tropics, queens lay during the whole year, except for short periods of rest at intervals. They wear out very quickly and con- sequently we have cases of super- sedure in our apiaries at all times. Our queens here seldom do efficient work for more than one year to 18 months. This gave me excellent op- portunities to continue the experi- ments begun in Texas, and I was de- lighted to find that my conclusions were abundantly verified. In cases of supersedure, the young queen and the hive mother work to- gether, but not for long. In looking into the hive a few days after one finds it to contain two queens, the older one will be found to be missing. Some writers state that it is only a mother and daughter that will thus labor together. I have found evi- dence to cause me to doubt this. It cannot be always the case. I winter young queens by the Alexander method, above the brood-nest. In uniting these super colonies with the main colony for the honey-flow, I found in at least three cases that the old and new queen were working to- gether. I marked these hives and ex- amined them again at my next visit. In every case the old queen was missing. Supersedure cells from good stock, when reared under favorable condi- tions, are as good as the best swarm cells. In a great many case
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