. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. October, 1910. Amorican Hee Jonrnal Our Bee-Keeping Sisters Conducted by Emma M. Wilson. Marengo. III. Worker-Combs for Extracting-Supers Deak Miss Wilson :—Kor tiie benefit of those who have asked, and of those who wish to know, what size cells our extracting framesconsist of. I will give the information, with your consent, through our beloved Journal. They are worker-cells, mostly. The rea- sons are many. The drone-combs have only two virtues, to my way of thinking. /. they are so easy to sling the honey from, and the cells are then clearer of h
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. October, 1910. Amorican Hee Jonrnal Our Bee-Keeping Sisters Conducted by Emma M. Wilson. Marengo. III. Worker-Combs for Extracting-Supers Deak Miss Wilson :—Kor tiie benefit of those who have asked, and of those who wish to know, what size cells our extracting framesconsist of. I will give the information, with your consent, through our beloved Journal. They are worker-cells, mostly. The rea- sons are many. The drone-combs have only two virtues, to my way of thinking. /. they are so easy to sling the honey from, and the cells are then clearer of honey than the worker-combs. On the other hand, the worker-combs have much in their favor to off-set the drone-combs. Reason No. i.—By having all worker- combs they can be interchanged when ex- tracted, whether they are taken from the top. middle, or bottom super, or brood- chamber. Reason No. 2.—Supposing, for instance. we have a frame of drone-comb which has a little brood-comb in it. and among it we have a very fine, sealed queen-cell which we wish to give to a queenless colony; all that drone-comb would be in the way. We would have either to cut the drone-comb out or place it just as it is in the hive, or graft the queen-cell onto oneof their frames, which lakes time, and is accompanied with danger, unless managed by experienced hands. As to the first would just ruin the comb and be a set-back to the already weak colony, which, on rebuilding, would most probably build drone-comb there again. The empty space would be a "draft" in their home. So we would have to remove the frame anyway, unless, of course, we were short on drone-comb, which I must admit has never been the case with us. so far. As to the second method, the frame would have to be removed after the queen had hatched, and more likely than not the ma- nipulation would be neglected during the press of other work, and the queen would deposit drone-eggs there, whereas, had the frame been of so
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