December, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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HEADS Or^RM>ni?mQrDlFFERENT FIELDS 



Bees Can Delay That bees can delay 



Hatching. the hatching of eggs, 



I believe may be easily 

 proved. In my nursery hive I have placed 

 a comb of eggs, freshly laid, and these have 

 not hatched in a week or 10 days, or at all, 

 until I have given each cell a small supply of 

 royal jelly thinned with new honey; they 

 then hatched, and, when given to the bees, 

 were fed and capped over as usual. The 

 temperature of this hive is 95 degrees, and 

 I have placed in it an artificial queen-cell 

 containing a day-old grub, fed it with royal 

 jelly, transferred it to an old used queen- 

 cell, and, in due time, a perfect queen has 

 emerged, altho not sealed up. 



I raised a frame of queen-cells this sum- 

 mer on the Doolittle system. A rather un- 

 usual thing about them, apart from their 

 fine size, is that they were started and 

 finished in one super, above a laying queen, 

 and every one was accepted, which is rather 



uncommon. They were from a queen which 

 I got last summer. She was 34 days in the 

 mails, and yet she and the workers arrived 

 brisk and lively, none dead, and not half 

 their candy consumed, which speaks well for 

 their stamina and the way they were packed. 



We are quite unable to keep black bees 

 here, owing to 'Isle of Wight" disease, as 

 they go under without a struggle; whilst 

 the Italians, even if they contract it, will 

 throw it off with help from the owner. 



Sheffield, England. G. Barratt. 



Can Bees Hear — As long ago as in 1876, 



Who Knows? there were several ar- 



ticles in the American 

 Bee Journal in regard to the above, and if 

 I am correct the matter has more or less 

 been discussed thru our own journal in 

 years past. The article mentioned was from 

 J. D. Kruschke, now of Berkeley, Gal. He 



The> exhibit that took first prize at the Southern California District Fair, held at Riverside. Calif., Oct. 8 

 to 12. The picture tells how handsome and complete this exhibit was, but doe.s not show the information 

 conrernina: beekeepin? and honey that was given out by expert beekeepers constantly in attendance at the 

 exhibit. Beekeepers in other parts of the country might well follow th© example of the Riverside County 

 Beekeeping Club in popularizing honey. There is no better advertising of honey than such an exhibition 



as this. 



