. The American apiculturist: a journal devoted to scientific and practical beekeeping. Bee culture. T^^ AMERICAN. 4!^^ '^l^ *^^ ^» "^r -^ir Apiculturist. A Joxirnal Devoted, to Practical Beekeeping VOL. IX. APRIL, 1891. No. 4. SOME POINTS IN QUEEN-REAlUN'i. Tlie various branches of bee culture require for success in any of them an adaptabiUty. And it seems to me that tlie many delicate operations required in the special pursuit of queen-rearing require a peculiar talent that few pos- sess, and I have fully come to the con- clusion that it is better for the person who makes honey productio
. The American apiculturist: a journal devoted to scientific and practical beekeeping. Bee culture. T^^ AMERICAN. 4!^^ '^l^ *^^ ^» "^r -^ir Apiculturist. A Joxirnal Devoted, to Practical Beekeeping VOL. IX. APRIL, 1891. No. 4. SOME POINTS IN QUEEN-REAlUN'i. Tlie various branches of bee culture require for success in any of them an adaptabiUty. And it seems to me that tlie many delicate operations required in the special pursuit of queen-rearing require a peculiar talent that few pos- sess, and I have fully come to the con- clusion that it is better for the person who makes honey production his spec- ialty to leave the queen-rearing business in the hands of experts in that line, for if the breeder is conscientious in his work the race of bees he is breeding will become better and better. And if we are to have the coming bee it will come through such a breeder instead of through the one who rears queens in con- nection with his other pursuit of honey production. It seems to me that the main point to be considered in the rearing of queens is, first, size. A virgin queen, when it first emerges from the cell, has either nobleness or inferiority stamped upon it, and no other than fine large queens should be tolerated. And the special- ist in queen breeding, if he wishes to keep up his reputation, pays much at- tention to this point while others let many inferior queens live, with the re- mark "/^i^ucss she will ; If every point is well up to the stand- ard (and I wish there was a definite standard as there is in the various races of poultry) the queen, if the weather is favorable, will fly out on a fertilization trip in five days. There are instances where the queen has taken this flight in three days and also many in- stances under every beekeeper's obser- vation where the fertilization has been delayed even in fair weather up to ten or more days. The latter queens, as a rule, are the inferior queens, while the earlier the flight, the higher the qualit
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