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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 15, 



5 or 6 days before eggs would be found. 

 The rule varies, but the above are about 

 the averages. Nothing pays a novice 

 better than to study the first principles 

 of apiculture ; without a knowledge of 

 them he will be constantly groping in 

 the dark. 



C. H. Dibbern— Let's see ! It will be 

 16 days before a young queen is hatched, 

 and about 16 days more before she be- 

 gins to lay, so you may call it a month 

 and not be far wrong. 



R. L. Taylor — Under such circum- 

 stances a young queen would emerge 

 from the cell in 10 days, and would 

 usually begin to lay in from 10 to 20 

 days thereafter, according to the season, 

 weather and forage. 



E. Prance — The young queen would 

 hatch in 12 days, and would be laying 

 in about 10 days more— 22 days after 

 the removal of the old queen. Ten days 

 after the removal of the old queen take 

 out all but one of the queen-cells ; if that 

 Is not done, the colony will be likely to 

 swarm. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater— If the bees made 

 use of a just-hatched larvae to rear their 

 queen, she might be depositing eggs in 

 about 28 days from the time of remov- 

 ing the old queen. But they may gain a 

 few days by using a larva of an improper 

 age, or be retarded by bad weather at 

 the time when the queen should take 

 her flight. 



Rev. M. Mahin — Under the most favor- 

 able conditions the young queen might 

 begin to lay in 17 days. A young queen 

 is sometimes hatched in 10 days from 

 the removal of the old one, and in rare 

 cases is fertilized on the fifth day after 

 emerging from the cell, and begins to 

 lay two days later. But as a rule I 

 would not expect eggs before the 19th 

 or 20th day. 



G. W. Demaree — There are several un- 

 certain conditions of things that must 

 be taken into account when you attempt 

 to answer a question like this. It re- 

 quires 16 days to produce a queen from 

 the time the egg is laid. Thus, 3 days 

 for the egg to hatch out the larva ; now 

 if the bees select a larva 2 days old to 

 commence with, 5 of the 16 days are 

 consumed at the very commencement, 

 and a queen should be hatched out in 11 

 days from the time the old queen was 

 missed by her bees. Now add 7 days for 

 the queen to mate, and 3 days more to 

 devebp into the egg-laying state— thus 

 11,7,3—21 days. I have had them 

 laying eggs in from 18 to 24 days. 



JBj- DR. n. S. PEPOOli, 



936 Belleplaine Ave., Station X. Chlcag-o. 111. 



One of the mints. 



What is the name of the enclosed 

 plant. It is a strange one in this section, 

 and a few bunches are growing in my 

 yard. It is in bloom now, and I dis- 

 cover my bees are working on it all day 

 long. If there was plenty of it I believe 

 it would be a profitable honey-plant. 



Evans, Ky., Sept. 19. P. A. 



Answer.— The plant you send belongs 

 to the mint family, which furnishes a 

 number of valuable honey-plants, as 

 horsemints, sages, etc. The plant in 



question is an introduced one, coming 

 from Asia, and Is rare in this country. 

 It is related closely to the horse-balm 

 (Collinsonia), but so far as I can deter- 

 mine it has no common name. Like 

 many of its relatives, it is probably a 

 honey-plant, but of no value, from its 

 scarcity. 



"A Boneset Relative." 



I enclose a sample of a weed to be 

 named. It grows on old fields and waste 

 places ; it begins blooming the last of 

 August and first of September, and lasts 

 about four weeks, and as dry as the 

 weather is the bees just swarm on it. 

 They gather both honey and pollen from 

 it. We have had hardly any rain since 

 February. A. R. Y. 



Sullivan, Ark., Sept. 12. 



Answer. — The plant you send has 

 already been mentioned in this depart- 

 ment under the heading "A Boneset 

 Relative," in the number for Aug. 13, 

 which please refer to. 



Xall Rattlesnake Root. 



I enclose a sample of a plant that I 

 found near my house. I think I never 

 saw a plant that the bees work on so 

 constantly as they do on this. I would 

 like to know the name of it. It grows 

 on a piece of new ground that has been 

 burned over. E. H. 



Grauville, Mass., Sept. 16. 



Answer. — Your plant is the "tall 

 rattlesnake root " {Prenanthes allissima), 

 a near relative of the wild and garden 

 lettuce, and other plants of the great 

 Composite family. It is doubtless a good 

 honey-plant, and Is mentioned by Prof. 

 Cook, who says it " swarms with bees all 

 day long." It is a perennial plant and 

 easily grown from seed. 



"Willow-Herb. 



I enclose a sample of a plant that 

 grows on the marshes. It begins bloom- 

 ing in June, and ends about the middle 

 of August. Please tell the name of it. 



S. R. fl. 



Hancock, Wis., Sept. 16. 



Answer. — The plant you send has 

 already been "written up" in a former 

 number of the Bee Journal. It is the 

 great swamp loose-strife or willow-herb 

 or fire-weed. "Willow-herb" is the ap- 

 propriate name for it. Prof. Cook says 

 of this plant: ' " It is often the source 



of immense honey harvests the 



honey is white as clover honey. It often 

 gives a rich harvest to the apiarist of 

 northern Michigan." 



Anotlier Boneset. 



The enclosed weed (I suppose) grows 

 abundantly here. It has been in bloom 

 for more than two weeks, and I think it 

 will continue to bloom for some weeks 

 longer. Please name it, and say what 

 its honey value is. I notice my bees are 

 busy on the bloom from morning until 

 night. H. S. 



Ocean Springs, Miss., Sept. 22. 



Answer. — Your plant is treated in the 

 Bee Journal for Aug. 13, under the 

 heading, " A Boneset Relative." Prof. 

 Cook says of the bonesets : " Now com- 

 mence to bloom the numerous bonesets 

 or thoroughworts {Eupatorium) , which 



Warner's Safe Cure 



IN LARGE 

 OR SMALL 



BOTTLES. 



Owing to the 

 many requests 

 from its patrons, 

 Warner's Safe 

 Cure Co. have put 

 on the market a 

 smaller size 

 bottle of Safe 

 Cure which can 

 now be obtained 

 at all druggists at 

 half the price of 

 the large bottle. 



is not only a scientific vegetable 

 preparation and does all that is 

 claimed for it, but it is the only 

 Kidney and Liver medicine used 

 by the best people of four conti- 

 nents. A medicine that bears 

 the stamp of the world's ap- 

 proval, and maintains its posi- 

 tion for a fifth of a century, 

 must necessarily possess pe- 

 culiar merit. 



Mention the American Bee JounuiL 



fill the hives as well with their rich 



golden nectar." As before hinted, such 

 plants as this one certainly would repay 

 the little care necessary to once establish 

 them near the apiary. 



C^cxfcrzil lictr)s^ 



Had a Fair Crop. 



We had a fair crop of clover honey, 

 and enough fall honey to fill the brood- 

 chambers. Bees are in good condition 

 for wintering. I will send in a report 

 after I have weighed the honey. The 

 Bee Journal has been a great help to 

 me. I don't think I have missed a num- 

 ber in six years. L. D. Miller. 



Audubon, Iowa, Sept. 25. 



Failure on Account of Drouth. 



Bees made a failure this year, owing 

 to the early drouth. I am feeding a few 

 colonies. This is the third year in suc- 

 cession that bees have made a total fail- 

 ure. 



I saw on page 612 a description of a 

 disease called " pickled brood." I found 

 a very bad case in my own apiary some 

 time since. I thought It must be foul 

 brood, and I burned it all. A few other 

 colonies were slightly affected, but are 

 clear of it now. I called on a farmer 



