Gleanings in bee culture . by Dr. Last winter was unusually warm, thecoldest day being only 8 below zero; and thelast week in March runs up to 70 or 80 de-grees, day after day G. M. DooLiTTLE advises against tryingto raise queens before fruit-bloom. Notmany beginners will follow that advice, butthey will after enough years of trying a good many early-reared queens,first and last, I have come to the conclusionthat the best thing to do with any queen thatcomes into the world before fruit-bloom, andpeihaps even before clover, is to take off herhead. Light frames in a te
Gleanings in bee culture . by Dr. Last winter was unusually warm, thecoldest day being only 8 below zero; and thelast week in March runs up to 70 or 80 de-grees, day after day G. M. DooLiTTLE advises against tryingto raise queens before fruit-bloom. Notmany beginners will follow that advice, butthey will after enough years of trying a good many early-reared queens,first and last, I have come to the conclusionthat the best thing to do with any queen thatcomes into the world before fruit-bloom, andpeihaps even before clover, is to take off herhead. Light frames in a ten-frame body arementioned as discouraging the queen fromlaying in extracting-combs, p. 490, top of sec-ond column. I puzzled some little time tothink why a queen should object to lightframes, and then it occurred to me that in-stead of light frames it should readci^^/iMrames. [This is certainly a typo-graphical error. It should have been eightframes, not light frames.—Ed.] E. W. Alexander talks, p. 474, as if hewanted ot
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