Gleanings in bee culture . sdequeens about six or seven days beforehe gives the prepared comb. Our plan,wliich works all Iight, requires two forthe work. One dequeens the colony chosen,by making a nucleus colony with thecjueen, two frames of brood, bees, and aframe of food. The rest of the unsealedbrood without bees is put into the upiperstory of a strong colony. The other, inthe mean time, is preparing the comb;and when ready it is jDut at once into thehive for queen-eell building, so that thecolony is not queenless for longer thanhalf an hour, and in less than 12 hoursthe queen-cells are wel
Gleanings in bee culture . sdequeens about six or seven days beforehe gives the prepared comb. Our plan,wliich works all Iight, requires two forthe work. One dequeens the colony chosen,by making a nucleus colony with thecjueen, two frames of brood, bees, and aframe of food. The rest of the unsealedbrood without bees is put into the upiperstory of a strong colony. The other, inthe mean time, is preparing the comb;and when ready it is jDut at once into thehive for queen-eell building, so that thecolony is not queenless for longer thanhalf an hour, and in less than 12 hoursthe queen-cells are well under way. RETURNING QUEEN AND BROOD. Unless we wish to retain the queen inthe nucleus colony we return her and thebrood to the hive on the fourth or fifthday, usually on the fourth after she wastaken from the hive. She, of course, isplaced in the brood-chamber with a queen-excluder over the frames, and the cellsabove, where they mature. There is prac-tically no loss of time, as the queen can 698 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. George Edward Newborn, graudsuii of J. L. New-born, Snow Hill, N. C. The babys diet is oat-meal, milk, and houey. He was justtwo months old when the picturewas taken. lay in the iiuoleus hive if given an emptycomb, and need only be out of the hivefor four days. COMMENTS ON THE FOOTNOTE. The statement is made that, when morethan two dozen cells are raised in onecolony, the queens are likely to be short-lived. I say yes, most certainly, if theyare raised in small colonies with few nursebees; but as we raise them in extra-strongtwo-story colonies in the height of theseason, with numberless nurse bees, thenthere will be 60 or 80 cells containing lotsof unconsumed jelly after the queens haveemerged, and these queens will be healthyand long lived. Why should they not be?The bees are not unnaturally forced tobuild cells beyond their inclination bythis method; but it is optional with the conditions mentioned, in thej)ro])er season for queen-rearing, there
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