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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



When we were present Mr. Moore 

 had 226 nuclei in operation, and he 

 has since written me that he now has 

 400. He has tried the "baby" nucleus 

 system, and is not very enthusiastic 

 over it. One objection being- the lia- 

 bility of the nuclei being robbed when 

 honey is scarce. The apiarist at Mr. 

 Weber's also made the same objection. 

 Mr. Moore also thinks that it is less 

 work to run a queen rearing establish- 

 ment, with permanent nuclei, after they 

 are once established. It requiresmore 

 bees, but Mr. Moore thinks the work is 

 much less. He considers the Langs- 

 troth hive rather large for nuclei, 

 and is trying a frame half the length 

 of the Langstroth, and a little shal- 

 lower. Four nuclei will be kept in 

 one hive. 



A PHOTOGRAPHIC FAILURK. 



He follows the same plan that I 

 did years ago, of having his nuclei up 

 on "stilts," or benches, so as to avoid 

 stooping in examining the nuclei. I 

 intended to give my readers a near-by 

 view of part of his apiary, but, for 

 once in my life, I "fell down" as a 

 photgrapher — it was a case of "forget- 

 ting." For a year or more I have been 

 using what are called orthochromatic 

 plates, those that are sensitive to other 

 colors than the violet rays, thus getting 

 truer color values in the photograph. 

 When I started on this trip I was 

 unable to get any plates of this kind, 

 and had to take the ordinary plates. 

 When all ready to make the exposure 

 I noticed the beautiful clouds in the 

 back ground, and thought I would put 

 on the ray filter, a colored glass that 

 strains out most of the violet rays, and 

 gives the other colors a chance, so to 

 speak, and thus get the clouds in the 

 picture. Even with an orthochromatic 

 plate, 15 times as long an exposure 

 must he given when the ray filter is 

 used, but, with an ordinary plate, 40 

 times as much must be given, as it 

 practically shuts out the violet rays, 

 which are the ones that do the work 



with an ordinary plate. This point 

 had escaped my memory entirely, until 

 I came to developing the plates when I 

 found them hopelessly under timed. I 

 spent an hour and a half coaxing one 

 of them with a weak developer, but it 

 was of no use — it was not there. Mr. 

 Moore's apiary is spread out over con- 

 siderable ground, and some one sug- 

 gested that we go back on a hill and 

 get a bird's eye view of it. When we 

 reached the spot, I found that the ele- 

 vation was not quite what it ought to 

 be, so I climbed a tree, and with the 

 help of the others, pulled the camera 

 up after me. As I feared that I could 

 not hold the camera still long enough 

 to use the ray filter, I left it off, and, 

 thus, by accident, as it were, I got one 

 view of his establishment. The clouds 

 were printed in from one of the under 

 timed negatives — the exposure was long 

 enough for the clouds. When Mr. 

 Frohliger saw me "shinning" up that 

 tree, pulling the camera after me, he 

 said he was ready to believe all of 

 these stories about the enthusiasm of 

 amateur photographers. 



INJURY TO TESTED QUEENS IN 

 SHIPMENT. 



Among the things mentioned by Mr. 

 Moore, one worth repeating is the in- 

 jury that comes to tested queens from 

 shipping them, or, to be more exact, 

 perhaps, from checking their egg-lay- 

 ing so suddenly by taking them from 

 full colonies when they are at the 

 height of their egg-laying. He says 

 that a young queen, that has just com- 

 menced to lay, stands shipment much 

 better, and usually proves to be of 

 value as an egg-layer, after shipment, 

 while a tested queen often turns out 

 very poorly. He says that a tested 

 queen ought to be shipped in a full 

 colony, or, in a nucleus, to say the 

 least. I have noticed the same thing 

 myself. This year I have bought 

 several tested queens of various breed- 

 ers, and very few of them have turned 

 out well. One layed worker-eggs for 



