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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 27, 1900. 



left with the fruit hanging glistening 

 in the sun without a leaf on them ; 

 but the " hoppers '■ were so bad only 

 in certain localities. In some alfalfa 

 fields they would scarcely leave a green 

 stem, while in other fields a mile or so 

 away it was still in full bloom. 



E. S. LovBSY. 

 Salt Lake Co., Utah, Sept. 7. 



Queen.Rearing. — Editor Root gives 

 some interesting information as to the 

 practical work of queen-rearing at 

 Medina, iu Gleanings. After men- 

 tioning the different methods, he says: 



Mr. Warden has tried faithfully and 

 carefully all these methods, and at the 

 present time he is using all of them 

 side by side. The result is, he has 

 drifted somewhat from his first love — 

 the Doolittle plan — and now prefers 

 drone-comb, grafting with royal jelly 

 and larva? every fourth cell. That is 

 to say, he grafts one drone-cell, skips 

 two, which he destroys, then grafts 

 the next one, and so on. He will take 

 an ordinary queen-cell of the right 

 age, when it has the largest amount of 

 royal food, and with the quantity in 

 that cell he will supply 20 ordinary 

 drone-cups with sufficient food to give 

 the cells which he grafts a good start. 

 But before the drone-cells are grafted 

 he enlarges the openirjg of the cell by 

 means of a blunt stick. The grafted 

 cells of drone-comb are then fastened 

 on a stick and inserted in a frame. It 

 is next given to a queenless colony 

 that has previously been fed up for 

 three or four days, and then deprived 

 of all unsealed brood. 



COLONIES FOR CELL-BUILDING. 



He now prefers queenless colonies, 

 or colonies that are about to supersede 

 their queens, to upper stories having a 

 reigning queen below. He says the 

 upper-story plan is all right during the 

 swarming-time, but it is impracticable 

 (altho he can use them) after the 

 honey-flow. 



Mr. Warden has recently been using 

 worker-cells in place of drone-comb, 

 which .sometimes he does not have, 

 and with them he secures uniformly 

 good results. Yet, all things consid- 

 ered, he prefers the drone-comb when 

 he can get it. 



He wishes it to be distinctly under- 

 stood that he does not condemn the 

 Pridgen method, which he says is all 

 right, but that he can graft a certain 

 number of drone-cells, or Doolittle 



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