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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



colony can be kept building cells dur- 

 ing the whole season, as I have done 

 repeatedly. In such a case you must 

 examine every comb in the hive once in 

 every twelve days or two weeks, and 

 cut out any cells that may be started 

 on them. 



When rearing queens in this way it 

 is just as necessary to feed the colony 

 in times of scarcity as it is with any 

 method. Of course, the bees are trying 

 to supersede their queen, and will 

 carry on the work of cell-building just 

 as long as there is anything in the hive 

 for them to live on, but if there is no 

 honey in the fields, feed bj' all means; 

 also feed the colony containing your 

 breeding queen, so that an}' larvae 

 taken from it will not have received a 

 setback from being fed sparingly. As 

 in times of great scarcity bees feed 

 larvae just as little as possible and 

 have them live, it seems almost unnec- 

 essary for me to say that larvae taken 

 from a colony in this condition are en- 

 tirely unfit for queen-rearing purposes. 



Before closing I want to add a few 

 don'ts: Don't try to rush matters by 

 attempting to rear queens before your 

 colonies get strong. Don't wait until 

 the season is nearly over, and drones 

 nearly all killed off; the bees know 

 when the drones are killed and winter 

 is close by, and seem to prefer their 

 old queens rather than take chances on 

 getting a young one fertilized. Don't 

 winter a queen that has been clipped 

 and at the head of a cell-building 

 colony all summer; quit off in time to 

 allow a j'oung queen to become fertile 

 and laying, and use another colony 

 next summer. 



The rearing of queens just when and 

 where I wanted them, and in almost 

 any numbers, with the colony storing 

 in the sections just as fast as anj' 

 other — no waiting for the swarming 

 fever or old age to overtake some queen 

 — is something that has given me great 

 pleasure. That I believe it will be so 

 with others is my reason for taking the 

 trouble to write it out. 



MAN WANTED. 



I,have an apairy of between 30 and 40 colonies, 

 and 1 want a man of good habits to take charge 

 of it the coining season or until August 1st. I 

 would give him one-half the surplus, I furnish- 

 ing the supplies and necessary tools. Or, if I 

 could get a competent man, one who knows how 

 to handle bees, I would pay him $20.00 a month 

 and board. 



ClylNTON F. PUt,SIFER, 

 4-05-tf Nessen City, Mich. 



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