

Vol. XIII. 



OCT. 1, 1885. 



No. 11). 



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NOTES FEOM THE BANNER APIARY. 



NO. 70. 



DRONE COMB AND OLD gri:i:NS. 



X^OU ask, friend Root, if we did not Imve some 

 ^Ip drone comb built, when we allowed the bees 

 ^^ to build their own comb in the brood-nest. 



-*- Haven't you forgotten how this matter was 

 discussed the last time this subject was up— 

 how Kro. Doolittle took it up and enlarjfed upon 

 it, illustrated, and explained? Refore bees swarm 

 they desire drones, and will build drone comb; after 

 they have swarmed thej' have no desire for drones, 

 and do not build drone comb, joiJcs.s they have an 

 old queen that they are intending to supersede. It 

 is possible that, were the bees allowed a large 

 brood-nest, they would build in it some store comb, 

 but when given only five frames in the brood-nest 

 no drone comb has been built for ».•<, uuletts the 

 queen was an old one. This season, in our apiary, 

 ahout one comb in twenty-five, built by the bees, 

 is drone comb, and in every case the queen was an 

 old one. Here is a letter upon this subject, that of 

 dispensing with foundation, from our old friend 

 Dr. Whiting: 



East Saginaw, Mich., Aug. :31, 1885. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Dear Sir:— I have just finish- 

 ed reading your article in Sept. Gleanings, and 

 most heartily indorse your plan of getting comb 

 honey from new swarms. My bees put the most 

 honey in the sections when they have to build their 

 own brood-combs. They do next best on founda- 

 tion, ami the iioorcst on dr;iwii fonilis. If thcro is 

 an ('nlllt^■ vvW to put hiin«'\- in, thr liccs will dcpdsit 

 the lioiil'v taken with tliciii when tlicv swann, and 

 there it remains. It they are olilifjfd to build comb, 

 the queen is ready to put in the eggs as soon as the 

 cells are deep enough, and that stops the deposit of 



I honey below the first eggs that are laied. You will 

 get the most wax in the openings in your queen- 

 ex(!luding honey-boards in a poor season, and with 

 weak swarms more than with strong ones. 



L. (". Whitino. 

 I When talking the matter over with Mr. R. L. Tay- 

 I lor, at our State Fair, he said that he had hived two 

 I or three swarms upon empty frames, and he could 

 I not see but that they did just as well as those giv- 

 I foundation. 8-W. Z. Hutchinson, 70—100. 

 Rogersville, Mich., Sept. L'l, 18K:-). 



OUR OWN APIARY. 



lU'.l'OHTED UV ERNEST. 



TJj S there is some inquiry in regard to " Our Own 

 ^Ife, Apiary," and a number of the friends have 



j^l' requested to have this department renewed, 

 "•■^ I hope our patrons will excuse me if I make 

 an attempt at it. There are some very obvi- 

 ous reasons why it should be recommenced. By 

 virtue of our position we are supposed to have a 

 sort of experimental station, where all the modern 

 appliances are to be thoroughly tested, and a report 

 of the same to be given from time to time. It is 

 true, a report of the more important things have 

 been given occasionally; but I feel assured our A B 

 C scholars would be glad to know just what we are 

 doing in our own apiary, that they may execute 

 their own plans accordingly. 



carniolan hees. 

 I have just to-day examined that Caruiolan 

 swarm. About four-fifths of the bees are now of 

 the new race. It seemed to me, as I looked at whole 

 frames of the V)ees, that although the difference be- 

 tween them and the common blacks is not very 



