1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1317 



of your ob- 

 servatory hives 

 and put some 

 of my nicest 

 bees in it on a 

 frame well fill- 

 ed with honey, 

 and also had 

 the super on 

 with nice white 

 honey in it. 

 Then I had, 

 near the side 

 of the hive, a 

 case of comb 

 honey and an- 

 other contain- 

 ing two ex- 

 tracting- 

 frames of hon- 

 ey, and I do 

 not think that 

 any one passed 

 this exhibit 

 without seeing 

 it, and the first 

 thing they 

 would want to 

 know was how 

 much honey I 



DAVIDSON S CONCRETE BEE-CELLAR. 



got this season. I would tell them, and also ex- 

 plain my method of management by showing 

 the hive with the super so convenient for the 

 bees to store in. 



I found a number of bee-keepers who still used 

 the box hive without frames, with simply a hole 

 in the top of the box for the bees to go through 

 to store surplus. They said they had a good 

 yield, but nothing to compare with mine, and 

 then I explained the difficulty of bees having to 

 enter the super through a small hole in a box as 

 compared with a hive and super such as I used. 

 This got me into business, and I have booked 60 

 colonies to transfer next spring if they winter. 



Yorktown, Ind. 



TWO METHODS OF QUEEN-REAR- 

 ING. 



BY E. R. ROOT. 



THIS SWARM OF BEES ISSUED JUNE 7 FROM 

 COLONY THAT PRODUCED 180 POUNDS OF 

 COMB HONEY. THIS SEASON. 



Mr. Pritchard, who for some time has reared 

 queens at our north yard on contract, says 

 it is more economical for him, and he thinks he 

 gets better queens by so doing, to give cells, just 

 as they are about to hatch, to nuclei rather than 

 to introduce virgins one, two, or three days old. 

 He found the bees would tease a percentage of 

 the latter, killing some and maiming others to an 

 extent that he lost quite a number of perfect 

 queens; so during last summer he pursued the 

 plan of giving only cells to the nuclei. 



Our Mr. J. W. Bain, who has charge of the 

 home yard, has been working gradually toward 

 the other policy, that of introducing one-day-old 

 virgins at the entrance of full colonies and nuclei. 

 He says he has no trouble if his virgins are strong 

 and vigorous, and they are allowed to run at the 

 entrance when >!0t moi'e than one day old. When 

 one, two, or three days old a few will be teased 



