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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 24, 1901. 



be relied upon as coming as near the average 

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 development of a queen has so generally been 

 agreed upon. Many of the observations have 

 been made, not upon full colonies, but upon 

 nuclei. Development will be retarded^ in 

 nuclei. In the American Bee Journal, Vol. 

 I., page 1-13, Father Langstroth reports a 

 case in which a queen in a nucleus was 21 

 days incoming to maturity. In my early 

 days of bee-lveeping I knew no better than to 

 have queens started in nuclei, and I had cases 

 like ihat of Father Langstroth. But in full 

 colonies I have had many, many incidental 

 proofs that 1.5 days was the limit. Ought we 

 not to change our belief from 16 to 15 >. 



Hiving on Foundation. 



Foundation, full sheets of it, is something 

 that a newly hived swarm does not like; at 

 least, Messrs. Hall and Alpaugh, of Ontario, 

 assert that such is the case ; that they are 

 much more likely to swarm out when hived 

 on full sheets. Mr. Alpaugh says he believes 

 that bees don't realize at first what founda- 

 tion is for — that they don't comprehend at 

 first that they can make combs of it. When 

 they find themselves in a hive filled full of 

 sheets of wax placed \'., inches apart, they 

 say to themselves: " This is no place for us. 

 There is no opportunity to build comb here 

 with the space all divided in this way. Let's 

 get out of it." Mr. Alpaugh prefers to hive 

 in an empty box, which gives the bees an 

 opportunity to cluster contentedly Iq a nat- 



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