Aug. 16, 1906 



American Ttee Journal 



it will be safe in a nucleus of 2 or 3 frames, 

 even if there appear to be only enough bees 

 present to cover well the 3 or 3 frames already 

 present. One reason for this is in the fact 

 that it does not require so much heat for 

 sealed as for unsealed brood. As soon as 

 most of the young bees have emerged from 

 the frames given, it can be exchanged for 

 another, and this will generally allow you to 

 add a frame each week. 



A nice way to do to have frames of brood 

 ready to give to nuclei is to put an excluder 

 over a strong colony with an empty hive- 

 body over it, and put into this frames of 

 brood from other colonies; then a week or 10 

 days later, there being no young brood pres- 

 ent, the frames will be line for nuclei, whether 

 you take with them the adhering bees or not. 



Bees Trying to Rear a Queen from 

 a Drone-Larva 



I have a colony of bees that is rearing, or 

 trying to rear, a queen from a drone-larva, or, 

 rather, from an egg laid by a drone-laying 

 queen. What will the result be? 



This colony turned up queenless in the 

 spring. I gave them a comb of brood and 

 eggs in April. They proceeded to rear a 

 queen, and turned out a very nice one, to all 

 appearances; but she disappeared about the 

 time for her to mate. I then gave her another 

 comb of brood and eggs, from which they 

 reared another queen. This was the drone- 

 layer spoken of above. I removed thi6 queen, 

 and, as I supposed, all of her brood and eggs 

 from the hive, and put in another comb of 

 brood and eggs for them to work on. 



In about 5 days afterward, on examination, 

 I found I bad unknowingly left a small patch 

 of the drone-brood or eggs in the hive when 

 removing the queen, and one large comb. 

 Now, instead, of starting queen-cells on the 

 comb of worker-brood and eggs which I 

 gave them, they commenced on the drone- 

 brood, and have drawn out some fine, large 

 cells which are now capped over and due to 

 hatch inside of a week. 



This queen I put in a nucleus, to try to find 

 out if she would deposit worker-eggs later on, 

 but her introduction was not a success. She 

 laid nothing but drone-eggs, to my knowl- 

 edge. P. S. J. 



Answer. — Bees which have nothing but 

 drone-brood are likely to try to rear a queen 

 from a drone larva, the result being a drone 

 which never emerges, but dies in the cell. 

 But such cells are not likely to be what you 

 would call fine-looking, but rather stubbed, 

 smooth, and incomplete-looking. If the bees 

 started a queen-cell with a drone-egg or a 

 drone-larva while the drone-laying queen was 

 present, there was nothing unusual about the 

 case. But if they started the cell after the 

 worker-brood was given them, and the cell 

 contained a drone-larva, then it was very un- 

 usual. Of course, you will watch to see the 

 result, and if there was a drone larva in the 

 case you may be sure the result will be noth- 

 ing but a dead drone. If, however, a queen 

 results, then it will appear that the bees have 

 carried an egg from one comb to the other, 

 all the time supposing that the queen-cell 

 was on a comb in which only the drone-lay- 

 ing queen could have deposited an egg. 



Plenty of Rain— Fall Flowers 



We are having plenty of rain now, and bees 

 are starting on fall flowers. Buckwheat is 

 just opening up; white clover is also popping 

 up here and there. H. G. QuiBIN. 



Bellevue, Ohio, Aug. 9. 



Slim Prospects fop Late Honey 



I have been looking over the surrounding 

 country to see what are the prospects for a 

 late honey crop It looks slim, but with 

 good rains and favorable weather we might 

 get enough to winter the bees, and perhaps a 

 little surplus. E. J. Bbtant. 



Elgin, 111., Aug. 6. 



Best Crop of Honey 



I have a better crop of honey this year than 

 I have had at any time during the past S 

 years. I will have 400 pounds of sweet clover 

 honey, quality the best, from 7 colonies, and 

 no swarms. G. W. Morris. 



Claflin, Ivans., July 29. 



No Surplus for Outside Markets 



We had no surplus honey up to July 4. We 

 got about 50 pounds per colony from bass- 

 wood. We have had a drenching rain of late, 

 and bees are working hard on sweet clover 

 now. There will be no surplus honey here 

 for outside markets this year. 



Davis, 111., Aug. 7. J. W. Johnson. 



Bees Have Done Well 



I am very much interested in bees, and also 

 in reading the American Bee Journal. My 

 bees have done very well this summer, one 

 colony producing 4 supers of honey contain- 

 ing 2S sections each, and one 10-f rame shallow 

 super, and are still working. It didn't swarm 

 a[ a n John L. Sims. 



Williamstown, Micb., Aug. 4. 



Poor Season in Florida 



Last year bees were an absolute failure here, 

 and I fed 13,000 pounds of sugar syrup to 

 keep them from starving. This year was 

 fairly promising, but the excessive and con- 

 tinuous rains have caused it to be almost a 

 failure. I have about 5 pounds per colony on 

 the average in surplus honey. Bees 200 miles 

 further south have done much better. The 

 flow came before the rains. Also, in western 

 Florida, where the source is entirely different, 

 there was honey. Here many colonies did 

 not give an ounce, the very strongest a few 

 pounds— mostly extracted. A. F. Brown. 



Bulow, Fla., Aug. S. 



Protracted Drouth— No Noney 



In this locality white clover begins to yield 

 nectar the last week in May. This season we 

 have had a protracted drouth, and the bees 

 have gathered but little nectar since the last 

 week in May. which has necessitated feeding. 



Sweet clover makes but very little 6tart in 

 this locality ; for some reason it fails to flour- 

 ish. I learn that in the vicinity of Aurora 

 bees are getting some surplus from sweet 

 clover. 



In northern Illinois "pigeon" and "fox- 

 tail " grasses flourish ; in this locality these 

 grasses are rare ; late fall warmth germinates 

 most of the seed, which get6 killed before it 

 can mature more. 



The Dadants have an exceptional locality 

 for this vicinity, being on the Mississippi 

 River. Win. Findlat. 



Basco, 111., July 30 



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