1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Wliat About l>ate Breeding of 

 Bees? 



Query 965.— 1. Is late breeding desirable ? 

 2. In other words, do young bees winter 

 better, or worse, than old ones ?— Iowa. 



E. France — I like young bees to win- 

 ter. 



B. Taylor— 1. I think so. 2. Better 

 with me. 



Jas. A. Stone — 1. Yes, if not too ex- 

 tensive. 2. Yes. 



G. M. Doolittle— I let the bees do as 

 they please along this line. 



C. H. Dibbern — Yes, I think quite 

 young bees best for both winter and 

 spring, 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — I prefer my colo- 

 nies to have plenty of young bees for 

 wintering. 



Rev. Emerson T. Abbott — I do not 

 want them too young nor too old, but just 

 " mejum," as Samantha would say. 



Prof. A. J. Cook— 1. I think it is. 2. 

 I think they do, though usually bees are 

 young enough, if properly cared for. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— I think I'd risk the 

 young ones, only I'd want them all 

 hatched while bees were flying well. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — 1. I think so ; they 

 never bred so late in our locality as this 

 year (1894). 2. I prefer young ones. 



W. G. Larrabee — All animals can en- 

 dure the cold best in the prime of life, 

 and I think bees neither too old nor too 

 young are liable to winter best. 



Wm. M. Barnura — Yes. I would rather 

 go into winter quarters with 2,000 

 young bees than 4,000 old bees. Let 

 them " breed" as long as they will. 



Eugene Secor — I have always let the 

 bees manage that business to suit them- 

 selves, and my uniform success in win- 

 tering, emphasizes the wisdom of that 

 notion. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater — I would not have 

 them so young they could not have one 

 or two good flights before cold weather, 

 but if left to themselves the bees will 

 manage that. 



J. E. Pond — Yes ! I breed them as late 

 as possible. 2. Undoubtedly young bees 

 winter better than old ones ; that is, 

 they do better in the spring when a 

 large force is needed. 



Jennie Atchley — As our bees here in 

 the South breed almost all the year, I do 

 not know. 2. If 1 lived in a cold climate 

 I would prefer young bees, or the late 

 fall hatching. But I may be wrong. 



Chas. Dadant & Son — Young bees are 

 needed to fill the place of the old ones 

 that die in issuing forth during the cold 

 weather. We never check fall breeding; 

 let the bees attend to it as they please. 



G. W. Demaree — I doubt if " lute 

 breeding is desirable." But bees evi- 

 dently winter with less loss if there is a 

 fair proportion of young bees in the col- 

 ony that have learned to fly out before 

 the colony is shut in by severe winter 

 weather. 



Rev. M. Mahin— 1. If a colony is 

 strong there is nothing to be gained by 



late breeding. I once had the queen of 

 a strong colony to get hurt early in Au- 

 gust, and not another egg 'was laid in 

 the hive that season. I expected that 

 the colony would perish, or be very 

 weak, but it proved to be one of my best 

 the next season. 



J. A. Green — I know of nothing tend- 

 ing to prove that late breeding is not 

 desirable, though that might depend up- 

 on what was called " late breeding." 

 I have never had bees winter better than 

 after seasons in which the honey-flow 

 lasted until Sept. 20. 



R. L. Taylor — 1. Yes, unless the col- 

 ony is already strong. 2. In my experi- 

 ence those colonies that have become 

 strong by late brood-rearing have win- 

 tered so at least. I can say a strong 

 colony of young bees winters better than 

 a weak one composed of old bees. 



P. H. Elwood — Yes, but not too late. 

 Nature's way seems best, i. c, brood- 

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 honey harvest. This preserves the 

 proper proportion of young bees for 

 spring brood-rearing. 2. Very young 

 bees are not needed for winter, but for 

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