. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 678 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 26, 1899. ditches to dig-—he's out of place at queen-rearing-. The re- markable thing- about the system is that after 48 hours the young queens are nurst by bees not queenless. I suppose the proximity of lots of young brood is what is desired, -while the broodlessness of the starting colony is depressing, and damaging to the results if the queens stay there too long. "What is home without a baby ?" RULING BBES TO SAVE THE FOOD. On page 579, Mr. Armstrong is right that the bee-busi- ness abounds in surprisi'S. Ki
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 678 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 26, 1899. ditches to dig-—he's out of place at queen-rearing-. The re- markable thing- about the system is that after 48 hours the young queens are nurst by bees not queenless. I suppose the proximity of lots of young brood is what is desired, -while the broodlessness of the starting colony is depressing, and damaging to the results if the queens stay there too long. "What is home without a baby ?" RULING BBES TO SAVE THE FOOD. On page 579, Mr. Armstrong is right that the bee-busi- ness abounds in surprisi'S. Killing part of a colony in the fall to save the food they would otherwise eat, it will do to mention as an eccentricitj', but not as a plan to be toler- ated. Not only is the danger of losing the colony greatly • increast, but even if they survive the gain is little or noth- ing. The amount of honey 5,000 bees by themselves would eat in getting thru is nearly the same as 10,000 would re- quire. If the conditions were very favorable I am not sure but the 10,000 would sometimes eat less than the 5,000. "FROM THE EGG TO THE PERFECT ; The article of H. W. Brice, page 579—"From the Egg to the Perfect Bee "—it would take a whole Afterthought to talk of all its talkable points. We are sometimes told minute particulars which do not verify when a body tries to verify them. Hardly want to hint that this is an example, but still it will do to " watch a little ; Have we not somewhere photographs of the position of bee-eggs which hardly tally with what Mr. Brice tells us ? Even granting that w/iw/of the items are correct, the paper is a valuable one that should not be neglected. I feel surprised by the statement that the young larva is certainly unfed for 12 hours. I had supposed that bees when feeling in a hurry for brood, placed food around the eggs a little before they hatcht. But then I never made minute personal observa- tions. Not making th
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