June 15. 1S99. 



AMERICAN BEE lOURNAL, 



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main incentive to the swarming babit is 

 heat and overcrowding. I remove the 

 cause, and have no trouble in the matter. 



E. France— 1. No. 3. No; altho all bees 

 will usually have capt queen-cells when 

 they swarm. 



O. O. Poppleton— 1 and 3. No. to both 

 questions; but I have never known an in- 

 stance of either doing so. 



R. L. Taylor— 1. No, but I never knew 

 them to do it. 3. I have had hybrids swarm 

 without capt queen cells. 



R. C. Aikin— 1 and 3. I have not had 

 blacks for 30 years or more, and we did not 

 think of that point before that. 



Prof. A. J. Cook— 1. No. there will be 

 cases. 3. The same as No. 1. All bees may 

 behave so. It is exceptional even with 

 Italians. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— 1 and 3. I wouldn't like 

 to say so under oath. I think Italians sel- 

 dom swarm without capt cells whtn hjt (o 

 thenis/Urx. 



Mrs. J. M. Null— 1. Yes. 3. Yes. But the 

 abnormal swarming with Italians is very 

 rare, and then is often superinduced by 

 lack of ventilation. 



G. M. Doolittle— 1 and 3. I see little dif- 

 ference in bees regarding the matter. In 

 times of excessive swarming, all varieties 

 of bees fail to observe general rules. 



D. VV. Heise — 1 and 3. I have never known 

 black or black-Italian hybrid colonies in 

 normal condition to do so. I would not 

 afHrm, however, that they could be depended 

 upon not to do so. 



Mrs. A. J. Barber— 1 and 3. I have had 

 but little experience with black bees, so I 

 cannot say. The few I had were so unsat- 

 isfactory generally that I destroyed the 

 queens and Italianized them. 



J. E. Pond— 1 and 3. I am prepared to 

 affirm that both black and " black-Italian 

 hybrids " have swarmed in my apiary, not 

 only without " capt queen-cells," but with- 

 out a rudiment of a queen-cell at all. 



C. H. Dibbern — I have never known Ital- 

 ians or any other bees to swarm without 

 having queen-cells, either capt or uncapt. 

 I am not prepared to say, however, that 

 they will not sometimes do so, but I think 

 rarely. 



P. H. Elwood — When any variety of bees 

 swarm without capt cells it is usually be- 

 cause the heat has driven them out. When 

 queen-cells have been broken out of a 

 swarm the bees are liable to swarm with- 

 out capt cells. 



Dr. A. B. Mason— 1. No, I never kept 

 black bees. 3. They cannot be depended 

 upon not to swarm without capt queen- 

 cells. They will sometimes swarm without 

 making niui preparation in the way of 

 starting queen-cells. 



Emerson T. Abbott— 1 and 3. I have never 

 known a swarm under normal conditions 

 without <|ueen-ceHs being started. In the 

 light of my experience there are very few 

 things you can depend upon any kind of 

 bees doing every time. 



Adrian Getaz— I and 3. I find but little 

 difference between the different breeds. 

 Such swarming generally occurs when the 

 colonies are much overcrowded, or lack 

 sufficient ventilation, and are often abscond- 

 ing cases, rather than normal swarming. 



S. T. Pettit— 1. I have never known any 

 bees to swarm without first preparing 

 queen-cells or cups with the necessary egg 

 in each. I have never known pure black 

 bees to swarm without leaving capt queen- 

 cells. 3. I cannot tell what hybrids may 

 do under severe treatment. 



Rev. M. Mahin — 1. I have known Italian 

 liees to swarm without having queen-celis 

 even started. I have not had any experi- 

 ence to speak of with black bees. 3. I 

 think that crosses between the Italians and 

 blacks will sometimes swarm without 

 queen-cells. There are no hyhriil bees. 



G. W. Demaree— From long and careful 

 observation along this line of swarming, I 

 am led to the conclusion that all the varie- 

 ties of bees with which I have had experi- 



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