. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. "Swarthmore" Demonstrates His Method Be- fore the Philadelphia People. (M. F. Reeve). H E NOTED queen breeder, E. L. Pratt, gave the Phila- delphia Bee- Keepers' Asso- ciation a clean- cut talk on queen rearing in artificial cell- cups by im- proved meth- ods, through a paper read by Secre- tary Hahman, at the outing on July 20, at Vice-President Flower's apiary, Ash- borne, Pa. The distinctive feature of Mr. Pratt's plan is the rearing of queens in mina- ture hives, either isolated or over strong colonies. Nothing would do then but that
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. "Swarthmore" Demonstrates His Method Be- fore the Philadelphia People. (M. F. Reeve). H E NOTED queen breeder, E. L. Pratt, gave the Phila- delphia Bee- Keepers' Asso- ciation a clean- cut talk on queen rearing in artificial cell- cups by im- proved meth- ods, through a paper read by Secre- tary Hahman, at the outing on July 20, at Vice-President Flower's apiary, Ash- borne, Pa. The distinctive feature of Mr. Pratt's plan is the rearing of queens in mina- ture hives, either isolated or over strong colonies. Nothing would do then but that Mr. Pratt should give a practical illustra- tion of his manner of transferrins: lar- vae from combs to cell-cups, which he proceeded to do. He had brought a press and empty shells or cups, along with him. Mr. Flower provided wax and a cup and oil stove. Melted wax was poured into the cups and when it had hardened, the cups were placed under the press and given a stamp, and were ready for the larvae. Mr. Flower opened a hive and took out a comb with eggs. Mr. Pratt fashioned a sharp-pointed stick inserted it in sever- al cells, pulled out the larvae and de- posited each in a cup and the cups in a frame and the frame was put back in the hive for the bees to finish out the drawing of the cells and to do the rest. The visitors were taken into the apiary and were shown frames containing larvae which had been inserted by Mr. Pratt at his home place just a week previously and had been accepted. Some of the drawn cells provoked ex- clamations of surprise on account of their great length. Mr. Flower also exhibited his im- proved tent with which he is conduct- ing experiments on the mating of queens in confinement, a subject on which he spent considerable time last year, and the results of which were em- bodied in a paper read before the Bee- Keepers' Association last winter. By the way, I omitted in my hurry last week to mention the fact that at the Mt. Holly meeting, Mr. Hornor showed
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