. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Entered at Ibd PustrOEQce at Chicago as aecond-Claes Mall-Matter.) Published Weekly at $ a Year, by George VV. York & Co., IIH Blvd. GEORGE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL, MAY 16,1907 Vol, XLVII—No. 20 ;:AW!m^-'.''H!JW'' '^jy^-; CdifoHal Jiotes and CommeTifs Don't Start Queen-Cells in Nuclei A ripe queen-cell may do all right in a nucleus, and a virgin issuing from a nucleus may be fertilized all right, and may be all right for laying; but the beginner should be cautioned never to think of using a nucleus in which to start queen-ce
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Entered at Ibd PustrOEQce at Chicago as aecond-Claes Mall-Matter.) Published Weekly at $ a Year, by George VV. York & Co., IIH Blvd. GEORGE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL, MAY 16,1907 Vol, XLVII—No. 20 ;:AW!m^-'.''H!JW'' '^jy^-; CdifoHal Jiotes and CommeTifs Don't Start Queen-Cells in Nuclei A ripe queen-cell may do all right in a nucleus, and a virgin issuing from a nucleus may be fertilized all right, and may be all right for laying; but the beginner should be cautioned never to think of using a nucleus in which to start queen-cells. To be sure, a weak nucleus will start queen-cells, and such cells will cost very little, but they will be worth still less thau they cost. A full colony is none too good to be used for starting cells. The growing larva should have all possible advantage of full warmth and full feeding. Only so can a good laying queen be counted on when it comes to maturity. Lebare Treatment of Foul Brood Mr. Jas. Lebare submits the following treatment, which has been successful in his bands: 1st. Remove queen. 2d. Allow the colony to rear a queen. 3d. Three days old. Kill virgin queen. 4th. Take a small piece of brood from a choice colony containing only larvjp one or two days old, and insert same about the cen- ter of one of the worst affected combs. Now from the time of taking out the old queen till the first virgin is 3 days old, will be IS days. 5th. Now you have queen-cells started. When the cells are capped over on the 8th day, take every comb from the hive, and every cell of that which contains life will be hatched, and if any cells are found still sealed up, uncap them, as 1 find the bees are too slow to uncap affected cells. Then I find that the bees will clean all germs from the comb, I have had the bees to out the comb down to the bottom of the cell, and when their choice cell is hatched, undoubtedly the colony will be clean, for I have never failed by this treat- ment. Jas. L
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