. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1916. American ^ee Journal cramped positions on the sides of the comb and when the bees have built them under distress conditions without having had time to prepare for queen- rearing by manufacturing abundant supplies of royal jelly. The cells raised as we describe them above are always straight and will always fit into the nursery cages and introducing cells. By our method we rear as many queens as are necessary for an entire apiary, at one time and in one colony, which save an incalculable amount of time and labor when requeening. As in a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1916. American ^ee Journal cramped positions on the sides of the comb and when the bees have built them under distress conditions without having had time to prepare for queen- rearing by manufacturing abundant supplies of royal jelly. The cells raised as we describe them above are always straight and will always fit into the nursery cages and introducing cells. By our method we rear as many queens as are necessary for an entire apiary, at one time and in one colony, which save an incalculable amount of time and labor when requeening. As in all queen-rearing operations it is necessary that there be a constant flow of nectar supplied to the bees during the period of incubation, and if weather conditions are such that there is no nectar coming in and the bees cannot fly, it is well to practice con- stant stimulative feeding during the time the cells are in the Rearing colony. Seguin, Tex. [Mr. Brenner's method is a duplica- tion, with additional and useful im- provements, of the method used by Oscar Dines, described in the Ameri- can Bee Journal for Tune, 1912, by Mr. F. Greiner. The horizontal comb method was original, as we believe, with Mr. H. L. Case, of New York State. Our correspondent will permit us to offer a short criticism of his able arti- cle. It is regarding his belief that "the first cells that are reared by the bees in the case of a queenless colony should be destroyed and only those permitted to emerge which were built over eggs that had not yet hatched at the time the bees found themselves queenless". This is on the assumption that the so- called "royal jelly "is entirely different from the jelly fed to the worker-bee larvje at any stage of their life. The observations of scientists overthrow this view. There is little if any doubt that the richest larval food is supplied to all larvse during the first three days of their existence, it being changed to a coarser food in the case o
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