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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



March, 1917 



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Continued from page 184 



" By what method do you ascertain the 

 fertility of a queen?" 



As soon as a young queen has been suc- 

 cessfully mated her abdomen will commence 

 to enlarge, continuing thits from two to 

 three days, when eggs will be found in the 

 cells. In late fall, after all queens cease to 

 lay, the enlarged abdomen is all the crite- 

 rion we can judge from. 



" What is the best method of selecting 

 queens and drones?" 



To the average mind the all-important 

 point in the breeding of bees is nectar- 

 gathering. For this reason the breeding 

 queen should be selected from stock which 

 for years has proven the best for surplus 

 honey ; and the drone mother should be 

 from as good gatherers, but, where practi- 

 cal, from stock not closely related to the 

 queen mother. However, as we have very 

 little control of this drone matter, especially 

 where there are wild bees or other colonies 

 as near as three to five miles, we cannot be 

 at all sure that our carefully reared qaeens 

 will mate with our carefully reared drones. 

 The desired qualities to add to nectar-gath- 

 ering, as I consider it, are longevity and 

 vitality, good winterers, quiet and peaceable 

 disposition, and, for comb or section honey, 

 white capi^ing of the completed prrdnct. 

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Borodino, N. Y. G. M. Doolittlk. 



Continvcd from page 185 



her first season, because he cannot know 

 that she is the best qiteen-mother the yard 

 affords. 



Our plan is to buy or select our tentative 

 queen-breeders, and have all introduced to 

 colonies about the last of July. The follow- 

 ing June these colonies are supered and de- 

 queened on the same day. Any not fit 

 for dequeening around June 25 to 30 are 

 disqualified. Each of the queens is moved 

 with one frame of issuing brood and about 

 one pint of bees to a new stand. The issu- 

 ing-brood frame is placed between two 

 empty combs, and the rest of the hive filled 

 out with foundation. Every effort is made 

 to have the nuclei equal at this time. 



In the old hive the approximate amount 

 of brood is credited to each queen. Later 

 on, all honey and wax the nuclei produce is 



