. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 137 of honey-plants, and he strongly recommends to bee-keepers in Middle and Northern regions a trial of Japan and suUa clovers. A list of honey-plants is given for the North above latitude 40 de- grees, for the South below 35 degrees, and one for the Middle sec- tion between 35 degrees and 40 degrees. The relative importance of the plants is shown by four different kinds of type. The most important, given in full capitals, are, for the North—raspberry, white and Alsike clovers, linden and buckwheat; for the Middle sect
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 137 of honey-plants, and he strongly recommends to bee-keepers in Middle and Northern regions a trial of Japan and suUa clovers. A list of honey-plants is given for the North above latitude 40 de- grees, for the South below 35 degrees, and one for the Middle sec- tion between 35 degrees and 40 degrees. The relative importance of the plants is shown by four different kinds of type. The most important, given in full capitals, are, for the North—raspberry, white and Alsike clovers, linden and buckwheat; for the Middle section—tulip tree, sourwood, alfalfa and sweet clover; for the South—white sage, horsemint, sourwood, saw and cabbage pal- metto, black mangrove and alfalfa. For full sheets in sections, "thin" foundation is advised on page 80, and '? extra thin " on page 55. The author says he has seen queen-cells constructed at one time by a single colony in Tunis. Henry Alley thinks only ten or a dozen good cells can be reared at one time in a colony; but Mr. Benton thinks a large proportion are good in colonies that have several times as many. There are good reasons for believing that the latter is correct in his views. With the right condition, he says " there need be no hesitancy in permitting the construction of hundreds of queen-cells in one colony, if such numbers are ; Clipping queens is spoken of in such a way as might mislead the novice to think a queen should be clipped annually. A good point is given on page OS which is perhaps new. After removing the old colony to a new location after swarming, intro- duce a young queen within a day or two. This will secure the destruction of the queen-cells, whereas if the colony were left till the first queen hatched out, it might have enough bees added to its numbers as to warrant swarming. Some would take issue with Mr. Benton when he advises, at the time of dividing, that the queenless part be left on
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