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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Proof-Reading 1 Queen-Cells. 



There is no use in rearing anything 

 but good queens, no difference what 

 kind of a colony you rear them in, for if 

 you know your business you should 

 " proof-read " every cell before "going 

 to press," as we term it. One or two 

 days before the cells are sealed, you 

 should examine them, and see if the 

 food and larvae are in proportion, so that 

 if there is plenty of jelly, a nice, well- 

 developed queen, and tjie cell will build 

 long, etc., pass it as O. K. ; otherwise 

 destroy it, as you will most assuredly 

 have some worthless queen under any 

 process if you allow them all to be 

 sealed, or "go to press" without being 

 "proof-read." 



What kind of a paper would a pub- 

 lisher have without a proof-reader ? 

 Well, some papers would be nothing 

 more than a sheet of typographical 

 errors. It is the same with queen-cells. 

 Why, I have seen just as inferior cells 

 from natural swarming as any other 

 way, but not so common. But some- 

 times after a swarm has issued the old 

 colony keeps right on building cells, and 

 the last ones will be from larvse too old, 

 and second and third swarms may take 

 all the best queens with them, and leave 

 the parent colony with a worthless 

 queen. 



Southern Bee-Keepers, don't forget 

 about the bee-meeting at the Dallas, 

 Tex., Fair, on Oct. 27th. A grand time 

 is expected. 



Doolittle's Queen-Rearing: 



book should be in the library of every 

 bee-keeper ; and in the way we offer it 

 on page 511, there is no reason now why 

 every one may not possess a copy of it. 

 Send us one new subscriber for a year, 

 and we will mail the book to you as a 

 present 



The Amateur Bee-Keeper, by J. W. 

 Rouse, is a book of 52 pages, intended, 

 as its name indicates, for beginners. 

 Price, 25 cents. For sale at this office. 



At the Dallas Fair, in Texas, on Oct. 

 27th, a great bee-meeting will be held 

 for Southern bee-keepers. Don't fail to 

 be there. 



What About Reversing Frames '. 

 — Does it Injure Brood ? 



Query 840.— 1. What is the verdict on re- 

 versing frames, now that it has had time to 

 be tested ? 2. Does it have any bad effect on 

 the capped brood ? 3. Does the pupa move or 

 revolve in the cell ? I find them in different 

 positions. —Illinois. 



I do not practice it. — J. P. H. Brown. 



We have never used reversible frames. 

 — E. France. 



1. 



No. 



I reverse only to get full combs. 2. 

 3. I cannot say. — R. L. Taylor. 



1. I do not see advantages enough in 

 it to practice reversing to any extent. — 

 Eugene Secor. 



1. Little is said about it now, and I 

 think opinions are divided. 2. I think 

 not. 3. Yes. — C. C. Miller. 



I have never used reversible frames, 

 but it has always seemed to me to be 

 " agin natur." — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Reversing has always appeared to us 

 to be a child's play, where movable- 

 frame hives are used. — Dadant & Son. 



1. I do not practice reversing. 2. I 

 don't think I ever saw any difference in 

 the condition of the brood. — H. D. Cut- 

 ting. 



Reversing ihe brood-combs is of no 

 advantage whatever. It is one of those 

 measures that add to the toil of the bee- 

 keeper without profitable return. — G. L. 

 Tinker. 



From the little experience I have had 

 along this line, I am satisfied that re- 

 versing frames dees not pay the practi- 

 cal apiarist, in the long run. — G. M. 



DOOLITTLE. 



1. So far as I can learn, they have 

 "rather played out." 2. Not that I 

 have ever seen or heard of. 3. Not by 

 reason of merely reversing, in my opin- 

 ion. — J. E. Pond. 



