1898. 



THE A3IEBICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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That is the common understanding, but 

 there may be exceptions. 



E. S. Lovesy— 1. About 5 days. 2. 

 8 to 9 days. 3. I would very much like 

 to know. 1 have many times seen a 

 young queen come out of the hive with 

 the bees, circle in the air, and usually 

 return and enter the hive in about 

 ten minutes. I have seen her set- 

 tle with the bees as if tired, and 

 I have seen them hived as a 

 swarm, but they always rush out and 

 enter their own hive. i3ut I have never 

 seen anything that would shed any 

 light on this question. 



Dr. A. B. Mason — 1. The time var- 

 ies. I have had them fly in 5 days, and 

 also not for 8 days, under the con- 

 ditions named. 2. From 2 to 4 days. 3. 

 I don't know, but our leading writers 

 say it does. 



Eugene Secor — 1. Prof. Cook says 

 5 to 6 days; Cheshire, 6; Cowan, 3 to 

 5; Langstroth-Dadant, 6 to 7; Root, 5 

 to 7; 2. Prof. Cook, 2 to 3 days; Che- 

 shire, 2; Cowan, 2; Langstroth-Da- 

 dant, 2; Root, 2. 3. I don't know. 



P. H. Elwood — 1. Cowan says from 

 3 to 5; Cheshire says 6 days. 2. Che- 

 shire says 2 days. We believe it takes 

 with us nearly 10 days on the average, 

 from hatching to laying. 3. I do not 

 know that it ever causes death, but 

 suppose it is so. 



R. C. Akin— I believe 3 to 4. 2. All 

 favorable, 9; some, 8; some, 10 to 12. 

 3. I never saw the mating act, but 

 have seen a number of queens evidently 

 very soon after mating, a string trail- 

 ing after them V^ to % inch long — sup- 

 posed to be a part of the drone. 



Rev. M. Mahin — 1. Usually about 5, 

 if the circumstances are very favorable. 

 2. Under very favorable circumstances 

 in 7 days, but that is much under the 

 average. 3. I suppose it is. I dis- 

 covered in my boyhood that the ex- 

 trusion of the male organs produced in- 

 stant death. 



G. M. Doolittle— 1. If the bees allow 

 her to emerge (not hatch; the larvae 



hatch) from the cell as soon as mature, 

 from 5 to 7, as a rule. If held in the cell 

 by the bees, then from 24 to 72 hours 

 after allowed her liberty. 2. A queen 

 commences laying about two days af- 

 ter successfully meeting the drone. 3. 

 Gently press a "ripe" drone till the 

 sex-organs protrude, and the drone ex- 

 pires at once. See? 



G. W. Demaree — 1. It depends upon 

 the weather, and to some extent on 

 the time of year. About 18 years ago 



1 spent nearly a whole breeding season 

 to test all these questions, and have ob- 

 served closely ever since. To put it 

 definiely, she will commence her wed- 

 ding flights — she makes not less than 

 three — on the evening of the seventh 

 day of her age. 2. She begins to lay in 



2 or 3 days. 3. I believe it is. 



"It is my practice to leave a few 

 roots in each radish bed to go to seed, 

 and have been surprised at the attrac- 

 tion the flowers are to the bees, also 

 at the quantity of seed set. Another 

 plant they are fond of is the bean, and 

 the more bees visit the blossoms the 

 greater the yield. The flowers of all 

 the cabbage and cauliflower tribe are 

 ever wooed by bees. So also are those 

 of the thyme, pennyroyal and catnip." 

 E. S. S. 



"The American Bee-Keeper is not 

 entirely satisfied with an answer I 

 made to a question in the American 

 Bee Journal, and propounds a supple- 

 mental one: 'How can the Union be 

 made of any possible good (not to say 

 the greatest), to its memV>ers without 

 an increased membership?' I answer, 

 the membership of the Union is already 

 large, and its resources abundant. Let 

 its officers make a determined and ef- 

 fective campaign, offensive and defen- 

 sive, against the evils and dangers that 

 threaten bee-keepers and bee-keeping, 

 and doubters will fall in rapidly 

 enough. ' — Hon. R. L. Taylor, in the 

 Review. 



