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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



dueriEs aiid RBplies. 



Is Pollen SW ill Droiie-Comlis? 



Query 780. — Do bees ever store pollen 

 in drone-combs ? If not, why not ? — G. 



Not to our knowledge. — Dadant & 

 Son. 



They do sometimes, but not often. — 

 J. P. H. Brown. 



I think they do, though I am not sure. 

 — J. M. Hambaugh. 



I do not remember having seen pollen 

 in drone cells. — H. D.Cutting. 



I do not know ; let some one speak 

 who does. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



I have never noticed any stored in such 

 cells, but can give no reason for it. — C. 



H. DiBBERN. 



I never thought of it before, but I do 

 not now recollect of ever having seen 

 any. — Eugene Secor. 



Not usually. Perhaps because there 

 are not usually such combs close beside 

 the brood. — A. J. Cook. 



Have never made any observations on 

 this point, and fail to see a practical 

 application for it.— G. L. Tinker. 



I think they do, but I have not exam- 

 ined into the question so as to feel safe 

 in a positive affirmation. — M. Mahin. 



Very seldom. The cells are so large 

 that the bees cannot very well pack it 

 so as to make it stay. — R. L. Taylor. 



Certainly not often. I do not know 

 why, unless because they never rear 

 drones, except when they can get pollen 

 fresh from the fields.— C. C. Miller. 



I have never known them to. As to 

 why not? for a guess, I should say, 

 because the main object of gathering it 

 is to feed to the workers. — J. E. Pond. 



Yes, though not as much as in worker- 

 comb. I do not know that I can tell 

 why, unless the size of the cells renders 

 it boarder for the bees to make it stay 

 there. — G. M. Doolittle. 



Bees follow laws peculiar to thein- 

 selves. They gather pollen to feed to 

 the young, and as the great bulk of their 

 young is "workers" they store the 

 pollen in worker-combs. To answer 

 your question directly, I have not noticed 

 pollen in drone or store-combs, but I am 



not sure that in all cases pollen is absent 

 from drone-cells. — G. W. Demaree. 



Very rarely. Because they do not 

 have to, I guess. Either that, or it is 

 none of our business. Can we get rich 

 any faster when we find out ? Perhaps 

 because they can pack it better. — James 

 Heddon. 



Yes ; but not often. Pollen is used for 

 feeding the young, and as the workers 

 greatly preponderate, it is probably more 

 convenient when stored in the worker- 

 combs. It may be that there are other 

 reasons, but they are quite unimportant. 

 — The Editor. 



Belle P. Drury is responsible for 

 the following bit of bee lore: "The- 

 owner placed a small box on top of swi 

 old-fashioned hive, which the bees soon 

 filled with honey. It was twice taken 

 off, emptied and replaced. Lifted the 

 third time, it was found that the bees 

 had not attached the honey to the box at 

 any place, but had built it up in a square 

 shape on the top of the old hive." — Rural 

 Canadian. 



A SYvarm of bees found a home in 

 the walls of a Churdan, Iowa, millinery 

 shop, and a large amount of honey was 

 recently taken out. 



CoiiTention I^otices. 



B^^The Cortland Union Bee-Keepers' Association 

 wiU hold its annual basket picnic at Little Tork, 

 N. Y., on Tuesday. Aug. 25, 1891. All persons inter- 

 ested in bees and honey are cordially invited to 

 attend. M. H. Fairbanks, Sec, Homer, N. Y. 



|^"The ninth annual meeting of the Susquehanna 

 County, Bee-Keepers' Association will be held on 

 Thursday, Sept. 3, at South Montrose, Pa. 



II. M. Seeley, Sec, Harford, Pa. 



B^" A meeting of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held at the fair grounds of the 

 Sangamon Fair Association, Springfield, Ills., on 

 Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1891, at 1 p.m., at the oflQce of the 

 President of the Board. The object of the meeting, 

 among other things, will be to formulate a pro- 

 gramme for our regular meeting. It is of the utmost 

 importance that the programme prepared at this 

 meeting should embrace our best talent, as it will 

 furnish the material for the Report which the State 

 has made provision for publishing. 



By order of the Executive Committee. 

 James a. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. 



BS^The Ionia Bee-Keepers' Association will hold 

 its next meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1891, at Ionia, 

 Mich. Harmon- Smith, Sec, Ionia, Mich. 



B^" The Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its nextjueeting on Wednes- 

 day and Thursday, Oct. 14 and 15, 1891, at Pennimore, 

 Grant Co., Wis. ^^ ^ ^ , ^^ 



Benj. E. KICE, Sec, Boscobel, Wis. 



