March, 1917 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



^ ^'^ _JFROM THE FIEL D OF EXPERIENCE^ i; Jl| | 



ascertained. Nine days after dequeening 

 all cells are removed so as to render all old 

 colonies queenless, and the longevity of the 

 Ikcs observed until about Oct. 1. The con- 

 dition of the combs should be noted, and a 

 queen caged in the cluster, to be released 

 in 7 days. Those accepting queens should 

 be noted, for this quality is important as 

 time goes on, but one or more colonies will 

 be worth further notice. 



The prospective breeding queens soon 

 lia-^e their nuclei up to good strength, which 

 will again give an opportunity for the best 

 ones to make a good showing. The weight 

 of each is also a guide for honey-gathering 

 qualities, and the amount of syrup each 

 needs to carry thru winter should be noted. 



The next June further observations on 

 the old colony and on the one the selected 

 queen heads at that time will leave no doubt 

 which queen should be queen-mother for 

 that year. 



Cayuga, Ont. W. A. Lishman. 



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vaunt it as a food, because people do not 

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 to the bill of fare. My reasons are, that 

 honey is not rated by medical men as a 

 medicine, and is used only as a vehicle for 

 medicines, if at all. It is not a food in 

 the sense that it is a tissue-builder, but is 

 an energy producer, a fuel to produce heat, 

 the coal for the furnace, and in this respect 

 identical with sugar, while its advantage 

 over sugar is that it is predigested — that 

 is, inverted by the bees before it is sealed, 

 and further in the chemistry of the hive 

 after it is sealed. A man can live on bread 

 alone for a long time, on flesh meat alone, 

 but would starve on any of the sugars, 

 while they would live longer on some of 

 the other carbohydrates, as tallow or wliale 

 blubber. 



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 best reason ever given for the use of honey, 

 viz., " because it is good." The "plain '' 

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