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the hive and rushc- over the combs; the bees 

 chase her, and the result is she is balled and 

 probably killed." 



■' Is the queen always to blame for the loss 

 in getting excited !" 



" Xo, not always. There is something- 

 about a colony of liees haying a virgin queen 

 that makes them different from other colo- 

 nies, and these colonies reqnire great care and 

 cautious manipulation. Sometimes the bees 

 are uot contented to wait until nature re- 

 quires a queen to make her wedding-flight, 

 but seem intent on driving the virgin out of 

 the hive. There are other bees that will tear 

 down every cell given them, and others that 

 will Ijall their queen, whether laying or vir- 

 gin, every time the hive is opened." 



" Do you get many colonies that give you 

 trouble in that way '" 



•' It may not be often such trouble arises, 

 but when it does I frequently find more than 

 one nucleus so disposed, and usually trace it to 

 the whole of the bees having been taken from 

 one colony to form nuclei." 



■' If you have such troubles you must lose a. 

 few queens. " 



" Certainly. If I could only get SO percent 

 of my virgin queens mated and laying every 

 year I would consider I did well. Some years 

 I do much better, and others worse." 



" Would there be a greater loss than 20 per- 

 cent ;" 



" Oh, yes, during some seasons: if there is 

 no honey being stored the loss might be 50 

 percent or more during certain portions of 

 the season. I frequently have had almost 

 total losses of several hatches of cells dis- 

 tributed. This would occur very early in the 

 spring, when there was a return of almost 

 wintry weather. chiefl,v cold winds. The 

 results depend greatly upon the season. Dur- 

 ing the past season I had excellent results, 

 almost every cell producing a queen ; but 

 then honey was plentiful." 



" I always thought the prices charged for 

 queens were too high, and to tell you the 

 truth, I intended to rear (lueens to sell after 

 I got a little practice. I can now see that it 

 is not all gold that glitters." 



Cold Winters and Brood-Rearing. 



A Stray Straw in Gleanings in Bee-Culture 

 sajs ; 



The colder the weather in winter the 

 warmer the cmter of the cluster. That being 

 tlie case, theory would lead tis to expect 

 brood-rearing earlier in cold than in warm 

 winters. I've often wonderetl whether that 

 theory was indorsed by practice. Now comes 

 L. Stachelhausen, in the Southland Queen, 

 and says: '"When I kept bees In a cold 

 climate, more than 80 years ago, I observed 

 in outdoor wintering that, the colder the 

 winter the earlier brood-rearing commenced." 



Section-Honey Without Separators. 



Editor Root says in Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture: 



1 once heard an extensive bee-keeper get up 

 in convention and say he had no use for sep- 

 arators — that he could and did dispense with 

 them; and, what was more, he got just as 

 good prices for his non-separatored honey as 

 he did for that produced with them. It so 

 hajipened that, months afterward, I ran 

 across some of this man's non-separatored 

 honey; and, of all the " kicks" I heard from 

 the buyer ! The long and short of it was, he 

 would never buy any more of that honey 

 again. It was too crooked, too bulged, too 

 everything; so when I hear a non-separator 

 Tiian" talk, I wonder whether he holds his 

 trade. 



Bees That Are Rustlers. 



E. H. Schaethe says in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture: 



At present the efforts of the queen-breeders 

 seem to be confined to stretching the tongues 

 of their stock to the utmost limit. While 

 this elongating of the bee's tongue may be of 

 benefit to those bee-keepers living in red- 

 clover sections, to the average apiarist the 

 working qualities of the bee are of far more 



