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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Question;) 'Box^ 



In the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety.— Prov. 11-14. 



How About Superseding Queens 



Query 27.— Uo you practice giving young 

 queeos to old colonies, or do you allow them 

 to do the superseding themselves ?—" Out 

 West " 



R. L. Taylor — I leave the matter al- 

 most entirely to the bees. 



G. M. Doolittle— I allow the bees to do 

 the superseding, generally. 



J. A. Green — I generally allov? them 

 to do their own superseding. 



Eugene Secor — I usually let them at- 

 tend to the matter themselves. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — I am more and more 

 in favor of letting the bees manage 

 affairs. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — I usually grant 

 the bees the privilege of doing their own 

 superseding. 



Emerson T. Abbott — I have a notion 

 that the bees will look after this matter 

 better than I can. 



Wm. McEvoy — Yes. Every colony in 

 my apiary will have a youcg queen be- 

 fore the season closes. 



W. G. Larrabee — Sometimes one and 

 sometimes the other, I think, but not to 

 let the queens get too old. 



Jas. A. Stone — When the honey crop 

 is good, the former will pay — but when 

 It is not, I practice the latter. 



Chas. Dadant & Son— We let them do 

 it themselves, except in cases where we 

 notice the failure of the queen. 



E. France — We let our queens remain 

 as long as they do good work. We kill 

 old, worthless queens when we find 

 them, and give the bees 'brood to rear 

 another. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — I let them usually 

 do their own superseding. I heard 

 Father Langstroth say that "Colonies 

 that supersede their queens rear the 

 best ones." 



G. W. Demaree — I now leave super- 

 seding to the instincts of all good, strong 

 colonies. Sometimes I take the matter 

 in my own hands when a weak colony 

 indulges an old queen too long, and is on 

 that account losing in bees. 



Rev. M. Mahin — I do not give young 

 queens to old colonies unless there is 

 some manifest reason for change. I 

 have found that, as a rule, the bees per- 

 ceive the necessity for change as quickly 

 as I can, and I have found no advantage 

 in removing old queens. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— Generally I have left 

 the bees to their own sweet will. But I 

 have found that in some cases they 

 supersede early in the spring, resulting 

 in loss of brood. In other cases an old 

 queen will be retained when a younger 

 one might do better work. 



J. E. Pond — Unless a queen is an ex- 

 tra-good one I usually supersede once in 

 two years. By thus doing 1 insure hav- 

 ing good queens all the time, except in 

 those cases where something out of the 

 usual run turns up, and in such case I 

 treat it as the circumstances seem to 

 require. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater — When a queen is 

 old aud fails to keep the colony in good 



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