. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 244 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. June 12, 1919. ing less than a whole egg at a tim« hy throwing away the fractions, we may make out a table showing just what a queen actually has averaged daily when she has filled a certain number of combs. It will be: For 1 comb, 347; for 2 combs^ 695; for 3 combs, 1,043; for 4 combs, 1,390; for 5 combs, 1,738; for 6 combs, 2,086; for 7 combs, 2,433; for 8 combs, 2,781; for 9 combs, 3,128; for 10 combs, ; for 11 combs, 3,824; for 12 combs, 4,172. Dr. E. F. Phillips thinks a good queen ought to fill 10 co
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 244 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. June 12, 1919. ing less than a whole egg at a tim« hy throwing away the fractions, we may make out a table showing just what a queen actually has averaged daily when she has filled a certain number of combs. It will be: For 1 comb, 347; for 2 combs^ 695; for 3 combs, 1,043; for 4 combs, 1,390; for 5 combs, 1,738; for 6 combs, 2,086; for 7 combs, 2,433; for 8 combs, 2,781; for 9 combs, 3,128; for 10 combs, ; for 11 combs, 3,824; for 12 combs, 4,172. Dr. E. F. Phillips thinks a good queen ought to fill 10 combs. That would call for a daily stunt of 3,476 eggs, some lay- ing. Perhaps some of us have hardly realised what a good queen ought to do. At any rate I should hardly want to call any man a slacker whose queens should average 2 000 eggs daily, keeping 6 combs filled. Someone may say that when a queen occupies 10 combs the outside combs are not ha If-filled. True enough ; yet these are more than balanced by inside combs) more than three-fourths filled. I've seen plenty of combs that I think were nine- tenths filled. Yet I do not guarantee that " three-fourths " as anything more than ft rough guess, and it will be a useful thing if someone makes accurate observa- tions showing just what a good queen does. Then I'll gladly readjust my figures to fit the facts. I have merely shown what a queen actually does average if she fiHa a certain number of frames three-fourthg full.—Dr. Miller, in The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed hy correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. Re "Isle of Wight "Disease
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