1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



477 



The Bee-Keeper's Guide 



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viewed from another standpoint, noth- 

 ing less than the colony can be consid- 

 ered an organism. In much the same 

 sense the family, or In modern life tha 

 community, Is required for a complete 

 organism. 3. Tell us what you mean. 

 4. By means of the instinct which God 

 has given them. 



0. O. Poppleton — 1. Several reasons t 

 An old queen, a heavy flow of honey, a 

 strong colony, etc., and sometimes pure 

 contrariness. 2, 3 and 4. These are fine 

 questions to theorize about. 



R. C. Alkln— 1. Conditions favoring 

 prospective swarming or supersedure 

 while the combs are being built on 

 urgent need of store comb. Last sen- 

 tence — need of drones, need of workers. 

 2, 3 and 4. I leave these to the scien- 

 tists. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — 1. Where there are 

 young queens more worker-comb will be 

 built ; If an old one, drone, as she con- 

 templates abdicating the throne. 2. 

 Crowd of organs. 3. I don't think. 4. 

 By Instinct; Instructed by the God of 

 nature. 



D. W. Heise — X. Some strains of bees 

 have far stronger Inclinations In that 

 direction than others. Much dependa 

 upon the rush with which a honey-flow 

 may come, and the prolificness of a 

 queen. 2, 3 and 4. I don't know. Ask 

 Prof. Cook. 



Eugene Secor — 1. The age of the 

 queen probably has some effect on 

 drone-comb building. Bees also prefer 

 drone-comb for storing honey, hence the 

 outside frames In the brood-chamber are 

 often filled with drone-comb. 2, 3 and 

 4. Excuse me, please. 



G. M. Doolittle — 1. An old or failing 

 queen tends toward the building of 

 drone-comb. 2. I Incline to think one 

 bee cannot " make a colony." 4. In- 

 stinct implanted in them tells the bees 

 just how to accomplish the best results 

 for the colony. 



E. S. Lovesy — 1. This Is governed 

 generally by the strength of the colony 

 and the swarming impulse. 2. As I view 

 it, a crowd of organs. 8. One of Na- 

 ture's wonderful conceptions. 4. Bees, 

 like other Insect life, seem to know when 

 and what to do in the matter of repro- 

 duction. 



Mrs. J. M. Null — 1. Age of queen 

 and size of hive materially affect the 

 building of drone-comb. 2. Of one 

 organism when seized by the swarming- 

 impulse (apparently) ; at all other times 

 each self-sufficient for Its mission. 3 

 and 4. Beyond my reach. "Sour 

 grapes," any way; don't want 'em. 



Rev. M. Mahin — Several things have 

 influence in this. The age of the queen 

 has something to do with it. A stron? 

 colony will build more drone-comb In a^ 

 large hive than in a small one. They 

 will also build more drone-comb when, 

 forage is abundant. 2, 3 and 4. I can- 

 not undertake to answer these questions 

 here. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — These questions 

 more particularly concern the ethereal 

 biological, metaphysical and theosophl- 

 cal minded bee-keeper than the real 

 honey-producer. The latter is so held 

 down to old mother earth by the " things 

 of time and sense " that he has no time to 

 give to the "ethereal" part of the busi- 

 ness. 



J. M. Hambaugh— 1. The notion of 

 swarming will strike one colony and the 



