1907. AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 37 



a disgrace to the name of in- early start in spring; or, perhaps, 



dex. Next off he ran into a sweet through neglect and other causes our 



thing of an index for each month in drone-mothers failed us at a critical 



the volume so he had to look in time. I myself have paid as high as 



twelve places. Bout that time he $8.00 in transportation charges alone 



had his coat off, tie askew and col- on a single lot of drones in nucleus, 



lar wilted. Then he found the sub- yet the expenditure seemed necessary 



ject inde.xed in one place under "trans- under the circumstances existing at 



ferring," next under "queen rearing," the time. 



then "cell cups," then "larvae," then g^t we can resort to the mails in 

 "age of larvae" then "eggs versus times of such dire distress and be re- 

 larvae" and so on ad infinitum con- i^^^^^ of quite a considerable ex- 



„ foundationem. By that time he had pense. Both drone-eggs and capped 



sent the guilty parties along the broad drone brood are mailable; if properly 



highway to . packed for shipment, either may be 



^ Oh I did what I could to smooth g^fely transported several hundred 

 his feelins and just as I was doin' ^^^i^^ ^y n^^j] ^^^ capped form is 

 nicely he sot down on a pigeon tailed preferable because of its hardiness 

 hive. Creak, crash, bang! He was and extended time limit. Then, be- 

 spread all over the shop. Eh? Oh I gj^es, capped drones are sooner on 

 stepped out and gently closed the door t^^ ^j^g jf gj^.^n to a queenless 

 and as I did so I overheard scraps colony immediately when received 

 about "selected lumber," "made to these unborn drones will in due time, 

 fit," "need of lightness," "advancin' fly ;„ perfect potency. 



prices of raw materials," "autymobils ^, . „ c ^i 1 , 



, . „ , ^^ , 1 he mtluence of the male bee on 



' scripture texts and so on. He sound- ^. . 1 j ^i ^ ■ 



_, , ,, ^ the progeny is so marked that in 



ed real unreasonable, so I came away. ^ ^- j ^u 



r , ■, , ■ selecting drone-mothers extra care 



1 had to be going anyway. u ia u • j ah ^i • 1. c 



^ , ,, . ^ r , , . • should be exercised. All the points of 



Some folk is powerful hard to suit. ,, ^ • .., 1 



,,,,,., , „ excellence present in the queen-col- 



Well I must mosey along. Bye. u u i, -4. -j <. • ^u 



•' TV, °"^ should be quite as evident in the 



drone colony, if improvement in stock 

 is desired. Although one may select 



TRANSPORTATION OF SELECT the best breeding mothers rapid de- 



DRONE BROOD BY MAIL. terioration will certainly follow if in- 

 ferior drones are allowed to fly. 



SWARTHMORE. 



The many possibilities of improve- 



IT REQUIRES days of exposure to ment of the general standard of our 



destroy capped drone brood, in bees through the exchange of healthy 



actual experiments it has been select drone brood are yet to be fully 



proven time and again that drones realized. 



in the capped stage may be isolated Swarthmore, Penn. 



and quite roughly treated for several 



days without suffering much harm. NEW YORK STATE BEE-KEEP- 

 This hardiness enables us to trans- •c'-dc Ti/r-c-cT' 

 port drone-brood by post should oc- 

 casion demand the practice. The New York State Association 

 Many times in our queen-rearing of Bee-Keepers' Societies convened at 

 experiences has it been found exped- Geneva, December 19, 1906. Resolu- 

 ient to procure drones from the south, tions affecting the society's welfare 

 in order that we might get an extra were passed and plans were formu- 



