THE AMERICAN APIGULTURIST. 



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They know how to improve their time. 



Stratford, Out., Canada. 

 I")eauSik:- 1 was very much pleaspcl 

 with llie queen you sent me hist June. 

 Her workers are very beautiful and vvliat 

 is Ijetter still they know how to improve 

 their time. 



G. W. Panton. 



"Who were the dealers? 



'Melvalp, Maryland. 

 Henry Alley: Herewith find $1.50 for 

 your valnal)le paper and a dau<ihter of 

 your .$100.00 queen. Please send me a 

 frood queen as 1 have bought queens of 

 three otlier dealers and in each case the 

 queens were worthless. 



O. Pahkkk Baker. 



The Self-hivers a grand success. 

 Maileawan, N. Y. 

 Mr. Am.ey: — Your magazine you sent 

 me was handed to one of our best l)eekecp- 

 ers. He was nuich pleased with it. He 

 sent and jrot some of your Self hivers. 

 They are a grand success. 



H. W. Avis. 



€^ucrw Department. 



Queen-rearing. 



"The queen business is rather new to 

 me. I have never attempted to fathom 

 its mysteries, preferring to trust to others 

 to rear them for me until I get posted 

 on other things. 



Would not bother you at this season 

 if I could make out when to expect 

 queens to hatch from the egg. You 

 say on page 221, queens will emerge in 

 sixteen days from eggs ; again, on pnge 

 250 (observatory hive), you say in four 

 days cells will be sealed, eight days more 

 they hatch, making twelve days. Now 

 what can I depend on after removing a 

 queen from a full colony ?" 



Eggs, if let alone in the hive, will 

 hatch between the third and fourth day 

 after being deposited in the cells. Now, 

 when eggs are removed from the hive, 

 the maturing process is more or less 

 retarded, so we allow some twelve hours 

 for that, and call it four days. When 

 the eggs are placed in a queenless col- 

 ony the bees will not, in all cases, im- 



mediately commence to feed the larva 

 for a queen, and here is still a litde more 

 loss of time. For this reason we give 

 the following time from the day the egg 

 is laid to the hatched queen : One hun- 

 dred hours, or four and one-fourth days 

 before the cell is started ; two hundred 

 hours, or about four days more, the cells 

 will be sealed ; and in just eight days 

 from the moment the cells are sealed 

 the queens will emerge ; that is, pro- 

 vided the cells were reared in a strong 

 colony and kept at a proper tempera- 

 ture all the time. 



Now the best way for you to know 

 when to look for the first queen or 

 queens, is to know when the cells are 

 sealed, and reckon just eight days from 

 that time. You need not expect nor 

 look, for a queen sooner, if the cells 

 were started from eggs. 



Our Premium List. 



In addition to premiums offered 

 subscribers on another page we make 

 the following : 



To any one who will send us three 

 new subscribers beside their own, we 

 will mail free one queen every w^ay 

 equal to the one described on page 1 70, 

 by Mr. Samuel Thralls. 'I'he queen 

 will be sent between June 15 and Jidy 

 15. 



Any one who Avill send one new 

 subscriber with their own (two in all) 

 will receive one of our droue-and- 

 queen-controUers free, by mail. 



To any subscriber w^ho will send two 

 new subscribers with their ow^n we will 

 mail a copy of Thirty Y^ears among 

 THE Bees tree. 



If you desire to get one of our Bay 

 State hives complete, send us twelve 

 subscribers. The hive will be deliv- 

 ered to the express here. 



For five subscribers we will mail 

 free one Bingham and Hetherington's 

 2^ inch smoker ; or for one new sub- 

 scriber with your own, we will mail 

 one of our fumigators such as we use 

 for introducing queens. 



