June 19, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



397 



Demaree's Plan for the Prevention 

 of Swarming. 



Some years ajjo li. W. Demaree gave 

 as a plan to prevent swarming the put- 

 ting of all the brood in an upper story, 

 leaving the queen below upon founda- 

 tion, an excluder between the two 

 stories. The plan has gone so many 

 years unchallenged, that to many will 

 come as a surprise the following in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture, by C. Dav- 

 enport : 



With a number of colonies I removed 

 all the brood to the upper story, and 

 filled the lower story with frames con- 

 taining full sheets; and every colony 

 so treated swarmed. Five of these col- 

 onies were in 10-frame hives that I 

 bought a year ago, and one was in a 

 12-frame hive. Two of these colonies 

 swarmed before any cells in the upper 

 stories were sealed, and no signs of 

 cells below. 



Some claim that a swarm will never 

 issue with cells in the upper story when 

 there is a queen-excluder between the 

 two stories unless they have also 

 started cells below. But I am abso- 

 lutely certain that three of my colonies 

 did last season, and I feel morally sure 

 that five or six more did. 



A method that did in all cases pre- 

 vent strong colonies from swarming, 

 whether they had contracted the 

 swarming-fever or not, was to remove 

 all the brood, give empty frames below, 

 and use either drawn comb or full 

 sheets in the upper story ; and when 

 this was done the bees drew out the 

 foundation more readily than they did 

 when there was brood below, probably 

 because they had no intention of 

 swarming, and this method gave us 

 the largest amount of surplus of any 

 plan I tried. But almost all the colo- 

 nies so treated built a large amount of 



drone-comb below. 



Quality of Extracted Honey. 



The difference in the quality of ex- 

 tracted honey is strongly put in the 

 words by "X Rays," in the Rocky 

 Mountain Bee Journal : 



Some bee-keepers extract from combs 

 partially filled with brood. This is not 

 only filthy and unsanitary, but oosi- 

 tively vicious. Honey can not be very 

 healthful or palatable that contains 

 chyle, essence of grubs, and the thin 

 watery stuff gathered from filthy places 

 that is stored next to the unsealed 

 brood. The queen should be confined 

 to the brood-chamber with a sheet of 

 queen-excluding zinc, and never, upon 

 any occasion, be allowed to enter the 

 supers, which she will do if not re- 

 strained. 



It is the custom very generally 

 among large producers to extract sev- 

 eral times during the flow. Some of 

 them wait until the combs are entirely 

 sealed, but the majority extract when 

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Kvery extracted honey equipment 

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 of extractinff-combs, Lanfjstroth size, 

 or their equivalent. The number of 

 these .sets of combs must be governed 

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Rearing Choice Queens in a Super- 

 seding Colony. 



The following is part of a conversa- 

 tion between G. M. Doolittle and a 

 visitor, as reported in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture, Mr. Doolittle being the 

 first speaker : 



"If you can find any colony which 

 shows by its building queen-cells out- 

 side of the swarming season that the 

 bees are about to supersede their 

 queen, you can rear as good queens 

 from that colony, during the time that 

 the old queen lives, as can be reared 

 under the swarming impulse." 



" I am glad to hear that, for I found 

 one of my strongest colonies building 

 queen-cells yesterday, some having 

 royal jelly and larvae in them. But 

 this colony has not my best queen in 

 it, and I wish to rear my queens from 

 my best queen. How can I overcome 

 this difficulty ?" 



"By doing what is known as graft- 

 ing the queen-cells, which is simply 

 transferring larva> frcm your best 

 queen over into the royal jelly in the 

 queen-cells the bees have started, after 

 first removing the larva that floats on 

 this royal jelly. In this way you fool 

 the bees, and they go on and perfect a 

 queen from the substituted larva, the 

 same as they would have perfected 

 their own." 



"But how can I be sure that the 

 grafted cells are not torn down, or 

 that others are not completed which I 

 have not grafted ?" 



" By sticking a slim l'4-inch wire- 

 nail through the comb immediately 

 over the grafted cell you can tell all 

 about this : and if you wish to secure 

 as many queens from this colony as 

 possible, while the old queen lives, you 

 will open the hive twice a week and 

 graft all cells having royal jelly in 

 them at each time of opening, and. 

 later on, take out the ripe cells before 

 the queens emerge. In this way you 

 may get as many as from 25 to 100 

 splendid queens from this colony be- 

 fore the queen dies." 



American Queens in Australia. 



There is one peculiarity about Ameri- 

 can-bred queens that I have always 

 noticed, and that is a most decided dis- 

 position to curtail laying operations 

 on the approach of winter. On account 

 of the long winter's rest in America, 

 this is simply following an inherited 

 tendency, but is certainly one that I 

 do not look on as too desirable in this 

 climate, still I am well aware that 

 many look on this disposition on the 

 part of the queen to rest through the 



