Aug. 20, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



539 



■will fail to store as much honey as a less populous colony, 

 because the bees will consume more honey than the weaker, 

 colony. 



4. Would a colony with bees and brood in three 8-frame 

 dovetailed hives be too strong in your opinion ? 



5. In starting queen-cells, by fastening- a strip of comb 

 (with the cells scraped off of one side) to a frame, so the cells 

 point downward, my trouble is to get the strip of cells fast- 

 ened without spoiling the eggs. Have you reared any 

 queens by this method ? If so, how do you fasten them ? If 

 you do not rear them this way, what is the best way to 

 start them ? I do not have a great deal of time to spend 

 with queens, anyway. Michigan. 



Answers. — 1. Wide ; as a rule the larger the starter 

 the better. 



2. Pollen, and perhaps honey, too. 



3. Other things being equal, I think no matter how 

 strong a colony might be it would always store more than a 

 less populous colony. I do not believe that a colony which 

 is all the progeny of one queen can ever become too strong 

 for the best results. If several colonies were united into 

 one giant colony, it would store more than any weaker col- 



ony, but it might store less than the same bees would have 

 done if not united. 



4. No, it would not be too strong, but as mentioned in 3, 

 it may be that the same bees would have stored more as two 

 separate colonies — for I take it that you mean to unite two 

 or three colonies to get the three stories filled. If a single 

 queen would fill the three stories, I would say all right. 



5. Yes, I have reared a good many queens by the Alley 

 plan, and have found no difliculty in fastening the strip by 

 dipping it in melted wax, and the eggs were not injured by 

 it. The way I prefer to rear queens for my own use is 

 given very fully in " Forty Years Among the Bees," and 

 although it would take too much space to give it here, I may 

 say in brief that my best queen is kept in a nucleus where 

 fresh combs are constantly built and filled with brood and 

 eggs, and when these tender combs partly filling the frames 

 are given to queenless bees they suit them to a nicety for 

 starting a lot of fine cells. 



You say you haven't much time to spend with queens. 

 Pardon me for saying that if you have timfi to spend with 

 bees at all, you have time to spend a good share of it in 

 rearing the very best queens, seeing that a queen is the 

 the very soul of the whole colony. Good queen, good col- 

 ony ; poor queen, poor colony. 



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