Al'GUST 1, 1913 



-Tlie apiary in the new location, four r(i\v> 



lbs.; Jan. 17. 120 lbs.: Jan. 24. 90 lbs.; 

 Jan 31, 90 lbs.; and still going strong. 

 Tliis total of 390 pounds for one month 

 oould not possibly have been gathered l>y 

 the bees from one single brood-chambc-r. 

 There is no need to restrict the queen ; if 

 her workers are as long-lived as they should 

 be. there will soon be so many honey-carri- 

 ers that they thems?lves will restrict the 

 egg-laying by filling the cells with honey. 



Since writing the above, my son, owing 

 to a serious accident to Mr. Ballinger, has 

 gone there to run tl:e bees till Mr. B. has 

 sufificiently recovered. My son writes that 

 the yield of the eight best colonies from the 

 l)eiiinning of January, when the flow com- 

 menced, to Februarv 14, is as follows: 



Hive No. 51, 600 'lbs.; hive No. 260. 600 

 lbs. : hive Xo. 75, 480 lbs. ; hive Xo. 18. 600 

 lbs.; hive Xo. 248, 540 lbs.; hive Xo. 205. 

 540 lbs.; hive Xo. 127, 540 lbs.; hive Xo. 

 256. 480 lbs. Total for 45 days, 4380 lbs. 



The honey was not weighed but measur- 

 ( d, being drawn straight from th^ extractor 

 into 60-lb. cans. 



These are. of course, the best colonies, 

 and the i^eneral average for the 100 colo- 

 nies in this apiary will be considerably Ioav- 

 er: but it should also be stated that four- 

 fifths of this yield came from one variety 

 of eucalyptus — red gum {Eucalijptus ra- 

 strata), and that the bees are still going 

 strong, now on white gum (E. viminalis) 

 and messmate (E. ohliqua). The figures, 

 however, do not by any mears establish a 

 record. The season before last, one api- 

 arist who is located about 40 miles south- 



west from this spot obtained an average of 

 480 lbs. per colony for 220 colonies. Xow. 

 could a one-story queen produce sufficient 

 bees to gather this amount of honey in the 

 short space of 45 days, as in the case of my 

 own apiary f 



(ilVIXG A COLOXy HAVING A VIRGIN EGGS IX 

 ORDER TO HASTEN HER EGG-LAYING. 



I am greatly interested in this Miller 

 versus Miller and Root controversy on pp. 

 788 and 796, Dec. 15. So far Mr. Arthur 

 C. seems to have the best of the argument; 

 but on second thought I am not so sure 

 about it. For about ten years I have reared 

 many of my queers in both nuclei and full- 

 sized colonies with an aged ciueen laying 

 continuously in the combs on which the 

 young queen roams at large till she herself 

 is laying. She is then removed, and after 

 a week's interval another cell is given, and 

 the process repeated thi-oughout the season. 

 Eaily in the spring I exchange queens be- 

 tween colonies having a three-year-old 

 queen and nuclei with previous season's 

 queens. Thus the young queens arc made 

 the best use of in the full colonies, reduc- 

 ing the swarming tendency at the same 

 lime, while the restriction of egg-la\-ing 

 produced by transferring the old queens to 

 nuclei makes them last through the season. 

 In fact, I have several now in their fourth 

 year. 



With an old queen still laying in a nu- 

 cleus after a young laying queen is remov- 

 ed, and while another virgin is maturing, 

 there is no need of giving either eggs or 

 brood, as there is always a laying C[ueeii 



