The American Apicultiirist 



% lournal bttrol^b to Srwntific mxH Uratlkal §cdufj3tit0. 



ENTERED AT THE POST-OFFICE, SALEM, AS SECOXD-CLASS MATTER. 



Published ?*Ionthly. S. M. Locke, Publisher & Prop'r. 



VOL. I. 



SALEM, MASS., AUGUST, 1S83. 



No. 4. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICES. 



$1.00 per year, payable in advance. Sent 

 on trial three months ibr 35 cts., six months 

 for 60 cts. 



Advertising Rates:— Whole page, $12.00. 

 One-half page, $7.00. One-fonrth page, $4.00. 

 One-eighth page, $2.00. Card, $1.50. 



Those wishing special rates will please 

 correspond with the Editor. 



All communications shonld be addressed 

 to S. M. Locke, Salem, Mass. 



EXPERIMENTAL NOTES 

 FROM MY JOURNAL. 



By L. L. Langstkoth. 



The time required for the de- 

 velopment of queen und worker 

 bees from the egg is a point of 

 much importance in practical bee- 

 culture. The following experi- 

 ments to determine it are taken 

 from ni}^ private journal begun in 

 1852. 



July 24, 1863. At 12 m., took 

 an Italian queen from a large stock, 

 and put her witli bees enougli to 

 form a strong nucleus into a box 

 having six small frames. The two 

 central ones were filled with work- 

 er comb, built this season, from 

 which nearly all the brood had just 

 hatched ; the others Avere well sup- 

 plied with honej' and bee-bread. 



2.45 p. M. Saw no eggs ; queen 

 10 



upon a central comb evidently 

 preparing to lay. 



3.15 p. M. A few eggs; judge 

 that the queen began to lay about 

 3 p. M. 



25tli, 12 M. Removed the queen. 



28th, 9 A. M. One queen cell be- 

 gun ; the larvfB are plentifully sup- 

 plied with jelly. 



August 1,6 a. u. Five or six 

 workers apparently just capped ; 

 one queen cell almost capped. 



7 A. M. One queen cell capped ; 

 the nucleus lias been kept strong 

 in bees, and all the other conditions 

 have been favorable. All of the 

 eggs (about 400 in number), were 

 laid in one of the new worker 

 combs, and although the interval 

 between the laying of the first and 

 tlie last egg could not have ex- 

 ceeded twenty-one hours, the de- 

 velopment of the larvas is more 

 unequal than might naturally be 

 expected. 



12 p. 



capped. 



M. Another queen cell 



8th, 5 p. M. A queen just 

 hatched. Frequent examinations 

 were made for some hours after 

 the nucleus was formed, and to- 

 day, at intervals not exceeding 

 (73) 



