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Try it and find out. It will not take 

 you more than 17 days. — Emekson T. 

 Abbott. 



If there are no queen-cells started 

 containing eggs or larvae, 12 days. — E. 

 France. 



Usually from 11 to 13 days. In ex- 

 treme cases, from 9 to 15 days. — G. M. 



DOOLITTLE. 



On an average, in about 11 days. 

 Eight-day queens are worthless, and 

 queens that hatch after 14 days are 

 poor things. — J. P. H. Brown. 



That depends. The colony might 

 have a queen-cell started. They might 

 rear one from a larviB three days old, 

 or they might rear one from the egg. — 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. 



That depends entirely upon the con- 

 dition of the colony. If they have sealed 

 queen-cells, about 8 days. If no cells, 

 then about 16 days — such queens are 

 likely to be short lived. — C. H. Dibbern. 



It will depend upon conditions; ordi- 

 narily from 10 to 16 days will elapse 

 before the young queen emerges from 

 the cell. The egg will hatch in a day or 

 two after removing the queen, if a new 

 egg is taken from which to rear it. — J. 

 E. Pond. 



No one can tell you exactly. It will 

 be owing to the age of the larvae the 

 bees start cells over. Anywhere from 

 10 to 13 days, provided no preparation 

 has been made or cells started before 

 you move the old queen. — Mrs. Jennie 

 Atchley. 



That depends upon whether the bees 

 make use of a just-hatched larva, or 

 one several days old to develop into a 

 queen. If an old larva is used, they 

 may have a queen hatched in 10 days ; 

 but if the egg is just laid, the queen 

 will not emerge until the 16th day. — 

 Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



No rule can be fixed. The first young 

 queen may hatch in 9 days — possibly a 

 few hours sooner, and more probably on 

 the tenth day. On one occasion I re- 

 moved the queen from a strong colony 

 to get some cells built, and something 

 prevented me from removing the surplus 

 cells on the ninth day, and on the morn- 

 ing of the tenth day I found a young 

 queen in a fair way of destroying the 

 unhatched cells. She must have been 

 several hours old. I once had a queen 

 to hatch in S}4 days. It depends upon 

 the age of the larva when the cell is be- 

 gun. — G. W.^Demaree. 



De-Ctueening a Cure for the 

 iSikvarminff Fever. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY ADRIAN GETAZ. 



Have Vou Read page 517 yet ? 



In my last article (see page 241) I re- 

 lated some experiments made with the 

 self-hiver as preventing swarming. The 

 result was that the swarming fever 

 would persist as long as there was a 

 queen or a queen-cell, or even unsealed 

 larvae or eggs in the hive, but after the 

 colony had been hopelessly queenless a 

 few days, all thoughts of swarming 

 were given up, and the colony would go 

 to work again regularly, even if left 

 queenless. 



This was new to me, and entirely un- 

 expected. I knew that many of our 

 leading bee-keepers remove their queens 

 during the swarming season, but I 

 thought it was simply to prevent the 

 issue of a swarm, or, in other words, a 

 preventive against actual swarming, in- 

 stead of a cure against the swarming 

 fever. 



The next step was to find out among 

 our bee-papers what had been already 

 done in that line. Messrs. Doolittle's, 

 Miller's and Manum's experiments are 

 not very definite. They have very fre- 

 quently removed the queens in order to • 

 save the honey that the rearing of "use- 

 less consumers" would have employed, 

 and comparing the queenless colony to 

 one working under normal conditions, 

 found the queenless colony rather at a 

 disadvantage. Frequently they cage 

 the queens in the hives instead of re- 

 moving them entirely. They seldom left 

 the colonies hopelessly queenless, often 

 giving them brood from other colonies, 

 if necessary, rather than having them 

 without unsealed brood, and thus missed 

 the most important point in over-coming 

 the swarming fever, that is, to have the 

 colonies hopelessly queenless for a few 

 days. 



I will now quote from Messrs. Elwood 

 and Aikin : 



