. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 622 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Sept. 27, 1900. left with the fruit hanging glistening in the sun without a leaf on them; but the " hoppers'? were so bad only in certain localities. In some alfalfa fields they would scarcely leave a green stem, while in other fields a mile or so away it was still in full bloom. E. S. LovBSY. Salt Lake Co., Utah, Sept. 7. —Editor Root gives some interesting information as to the practical work of queen-rearing at Medina, iu Gleanings. After men- tioning the different methods, he says: Mr. Warden has tried
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 622 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Sept. 27, 1900. left with the fruit hanging glistening in the sun without a leaf on them; but the " hoppers'? were so bad only in certain localities. In some alfalfa fields they would scarcely leave a green stem, while in other fields a mile or so away it was still in full bloom. E. S. LovBSY. Salt Lake Co., Utah, Sept. 7. —Editor Root gives some interesting information as to the practical work of queen-rearing at Medina, iu Gleanings. After men- tioning the different methods, he says: Mr. Warden has tried faithfully and carefully all these methods, and at the present time he is using all of them side by side. The result is, he has drifted somewhat from his first love— the Doolittle plan—and now prefers drone-comb, grafting with royal jelly and larva? every fourth cell. That is to say, he grafts one drone-cell, skips two, which he destroys, then grafts the next one, and so on. He will take an ordinary queen-cell of the right age,when it has the largest amount of royal food, and with the quantity in that cell he will supply 20 ordinary drone-cups with sufficient food to give the cells which he grafts a good start. But before the drone-cells are grafted he enlarges the openirjg of the cell by means of a blunt stick. The grafted cells of drone-comb are then fastened on a stick and inserted in a frame. It is next given to a queenless colony that has previously been fed up for three or four days, and then deprived of all unsealed brood. COLONIES FOR CELL-BUILDING. He now prefers queenless colonies, or colonies that are about to supersede their queens, to upper stories having a reigning queen below. He says the upper-story plan is all right during the swarming-time, but it is impracticable (altho he can use them) after the honey-flow. Mr. Warden has recently been using worker-cells in place of drone-comb, which .sometimes he does not have, and with them he secures uniformly good
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