June 14, 1900. 



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the bees after the regular day for 

 hatching-. — Ei>.] 



John R. Millard gets some soniid in- 

 struction on page 352. The problem 

 being to get a stock of drones from a 

 choice young queen, this might be 

 worth trying : Add brood from other 

 colonies so as to get the young queen's 

 colony very strong. Then have plenty 

 of drone-comb in one or two of the 

 central combs. As soon as the queen 

 fills these drone-cells, take the comb 

 and give to another colony, and replace 

 with fresh drone-comb as fast as taken 

 away. 



In working bees from other frames 

 to dovetail frames, one way is to put 

 the hive with brood over the dovetail 

 hive, an excluder between, the queen 

 below. But the queen is very slow 

 about laying, apparently thinking she 

 ought to get above to lay. A better 

 way is to brush all bees from the old 

 comb into the new hive, and put the 

 beeless brood over another strong col- 

 ony with excluder. If desired, this 

 brood may be put back over its original 

 queen 10 days later. 



Equalizing colonies is all wrong. 

 And it's all right. Depends. In the 

 spring, take two colonies, one with 

 three frames filled with brood, the 

 other with enough brood in three 

 frames to make one full frame. Take 

 a frame full of brood from the strong 

 and give to the weak, and you have 

 equalized the brood. Three weeks later 

 there will not be as much brood in the 

 two hives as if you had let them alone. 

 But let them alone till the stronger has 

 6 or 8 frames of brood, and then vou 

 will gain by equalizing. The secret of 

 it is that a colony with brood enough 

 to fill only one frame full stands nearlj' 

 still, while one with 3 or 4 frames 

 booms right along. 



Doolittle talks sense when he favors 

 leaving queen-cells and young queens 

 with the bees from start to finish. And 

 he will probably agree that for the best 

 results it is desirable that the cells be 

 in a strong colony at least till they are 

 sealed, and that it is at least a little 

 better that the young queen be in a 

 strong nucleus till she lays. We are 

 not likely to reach the time when good 

 queens can be reared for nothing. — [I 

 have said a good deal in favor of bees 

 for business, and have rather decried 

 the evident rage for color, which rage 

 now seems to have all but died out. 

 Would it not bewail to talk about high- 

 priced queens ? One reared by the 

 most approved plans in a strong col- 

 ony, under the swarming-irapulse, or 

 same impulse brought on artificially 

 by feeding, ought to be worth twice as 

 much as one reared in the old-fash- 

 ioned method in a queenless colony 

 without feeding — a method that is apt 

 to result in small, inferior queens. 

 —Ed.] 



Have you tried the French way of 

 using the Porter escape ? Instead of 

 having the escape open into the hive 

 below, have it open outside, in front, 

 above the hive. One advantag^e claimed 

 is that you can see if the springs of the 

 escape do not work exactly right. 

 [This method is all right under some 

 conditions. H. R. Boardman has prac- 

 ticed it for years, and I do not know 

 but he is using it now. It has the ad- 

 vantage, according to Mr. Boardman, 

 of getting the bees out of the supers a 

 little quicker, because the bees work 



toward bright daylight. The young 

 bees that happen to be in the supers 

 come out in tront of the hive, and 

 naturally find the entrance, so none 

 are lost ; but as a general rule Porter 

 escapes are put on at night between 

 brood-nest and sections, and the next 

 morning the supers are supposed to be 

 free of bees ; but according to my ex- 

 perience they are not always thus 

 freed, for I have found anywhere from 

 30 to 40 bees in the super next morn- 

 ing. I suppose H. R. Boardman, by 

 his plan, induces the bees to leave 

 earlier, with tlie result that the work is 

 accomplisht in less time, and more 

 thoroly. It miglit be well to try this 

 matter this coming season. — Ed.] 



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