THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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"A Year among tlie Bees" is the 



title of a most excellent work on bees, 

 by Dr. C. C. Miller of Marengo, 111. 

 I have been looking this book over 

 of late, and as queen-rearing is our 

 hobby, I naturally turned to that 

 part of the treatise containing the 

 author's ideas on this point. Dr. 

 Miller gives his method for rearing 

 queens which is about the same as 

 has been practised by most beekeep- 

 ers for the past thirty years, except 

 in one point. He says : 



"About the time the honey flow com- 

 mences, I m;ike preparations for queen- 

 reai-jng. The tirst thing wanted is 

 some worker comb preferably new, 

 evenly tilled with eggs. I take one of 

 I lie middle combs of the hive contain- 

 ing the imported queen, and fit cen- 

 trally into it two pieces of worlcer 

 comb talvcn from one-pound sections. 

 These are about four inches square 

 and I select those that have been 

 drawn out about the proper depth for 

 brood-rearing, or trim them down to 

 that depth. The honey has all been 

 removed, probably the previous year. 

 A piece is cut out of the brood-comb 

 for each section and the sections 

 merely crowded in. I do not mean, 

 of course, any of the wood of the sec- 

 tions, just the comb. 



Suppose these section combs thus 

 prepared to be put in the middle of 

 the brood-nest on June 1; I look, on 

 June 2, to see if eggs are to be found. 

 Most likely; if not, almost surely 

 June 3, about three days from the time 

 the eggs are laid. I cut out these sec- 

 tions and replace them with fresh ones. 

 Then the sections are cut up and at- 

 tached to the brood-combs in the man- 

 ner directed by Mr. Alley in his book 

 on queen-rearing, only instead, of leav- 

 ing an e/jg in every alternate cell, I leave 

 one in every third cell." 



The words which I have put in 

 italics is the part of Dr. Miller's 

 method for rearing queens to which 

 I wish to call special attention. We 

 judge Dr. Miller considers that he 

 has, " by leaving an egg in every 

 third cell, " discovered something 

 concerning queen-rearing before un- 

 known to us. I have once given my 

 early experiments in queen-rearing 

 but as they may have been forgotten 

 by some, I will give them again. 



