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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May, 1920 



HEADS OFnGRAIN"I PPQlQt rDIFFERENT FIELDS 



quired was from five to ten minutes for 

 each colony. 



Now as to results. Frequently it has been 

 stated that, in this mode of transferring, 

 the bees will emerge in three weeks, that all 

 honey will have been removed by the bees, 

 and that no queen-cells will be started in the 

 old hive. As a matter of fact, in this ex- 

 periment a part of the honey remained, and 

 a considerable number of queen-cells were 

 formed in the lower hives. In some of the 

 colonies the bees succeeded in finding an 

 opening, and, in all such, queen-cells were 

 started; in the others only a part formed 

 queen-cells. At the end of three weeks the 

 old hives were taken away; but, in order 

 to remove the honey remaining in the combs, 

 they were placed in front of the hives at 

 sundown and in the morning were found to 

 be cleaned up. 



All things considered, this mode of trans- 

 ferring probably requires less labor than 

 any other, but let us not take it for granted 

 that the bees will not start queen-cells and 

 swarm. The safest way is to look thru every 

 hive and remove all cells within 10 days; 

 for, with the old queen clipped, the young 

 queen will be very apt to squeeze thru the 



excluder or otherwise escape with a swarm. 

 If the old queen is not clipped, swarming 

 may occur either with the capping of queen- 

 cells below or about the time the young 

 queen emerges. E. S. Miller. 



Valparaiso, Ind. 



Reprcstiitiiiivts of the Honev Exchanges that met 

 at Salt Lake City, Feb. 20-21 last. Prom left to 

 right: E. W. Horn, C. E. Dibble, P. S. Farrell, 

 B. F. Hastings, W. B. Parker, and Chas. Orr. See 

 page 201, April Gleanings. 



Ma says it beats all how fast her sugar seems to be going ever since we began having the first warm wea- 

 ther this spring. 



