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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



A COLONY OF BEES AS AN INCUBATOB. 



We find iu L'Apiculteur for February '94, 

 a new argument in favor of combining bee- 

 keeping and poultry raising. A certain M. 

 Beanne, in mowing a field last July, dis- 

 covered a partridge nest containing fourteen 

 eggs. They had been brooded two weeks 

 and he determined to make the attempt to 

 hatch them. As he had no artificial brooder, 

 and could not find a sitting hen, he made an 

 experiment. In an Abott hive, containing 

 a strong May swarm, he placed on top of 

 the frames a layer of wadding and on this 

 the eggs which were then covered with an- 

 other layer of wadding, over all he placed 

 oat-chaff. Eight days after, fourteen little 

 partridges were hatched. They were put in 

 a box covered with wadding and placed near 

 the firr, where they received their first meal 

 of ants' eggs, and a cake made of yolk of 

 egg and bread crumbs. Finally they were 

 returned to their hive. They lived thus for 

 four days and were then given to a neighbor. 

 It may be that some method may be dis- 

 covered of arranging the upper part of a 

 hive in such a manner as to utilize the heat 

 for artificial incubation. Perhaps it is worth 

 the trial. 



Lapeeb, Mich. ' April 20, 1894. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN JUNE 10. 894. 



It is POSSIBLE for you to get so far to one 

 side of a subject that you cannot see the 

 other side. 



Miis. Atohley, under the heading of 

 "Profitable Bee Keeping," is writing a 

 series of interesting articles for the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. 



Bro. York calls my attention to the fact 

 that he did not say positively that the case 

 against Bro. Heddon was stronger than it 

 was a year ago ; he simply said it " seemed 

 stronger." 



The First Bulletin to be gotten out by 

 experimenter Taylor will not be out so soon 

 as he thought. There will be the usual de- 

 lay in printing, but this will enable him to 

 get in the report of the full year's work. 



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Unqueening a hive because a new queen 

 has been ordered is something of which some 

 bee-keepers are guiky. Don't do it. There 

 are sometimes delays in shipping queens. 

 Don't remove the old queen until you have 

 her would-be-successor safely in your hand. 



The Practical Bee-Keeper of Canada is 

 doing nicely. It seems to belong to that 

 ■ class of journals now greatly on the increase, 

 those that will allow a man to be heard even 

 if his views may be opposed to those of the 

 editor's — yes, even if those views are not 

 popular. 



F. A. Gemmill has declined to accept fhe 

 Secretaryship of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, and it has been tendered to Wm. 

 Couse, of Streetville, who was for several 

 years its very efficient Secretary. He has 

 accepted — yes, and he has "got married" 

 too. Congratulations are extended to Mrs. 

 Couse, her husband and to the O. B. K. A. 



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Gleanings is beginning to give a little 

 picture of the author at the head of his arti- 

 cle, a la Review. But then, the Review got 

 the idea from the Cosmopolitan and from 

 some printers' journal, I have forgotten 

 which one now. It starts out with a picture 

 of Karl Rudolph Mathey, also giving a short 

 biographical sketch at the boltomof the col- 

 umn the same as the Review has done. If 

 Gleanings will only continue to give pictures 

 of good looking men, the Review will not be 

 jealous because of the adoption of this fea- 

 ture. 



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Hatching little partridges over a colony 

 of bees is mentioned in the translations 

 given th's month. I doubt if this would 

 have been successful had not the period of 

 incubation been well advanced. I have sev- 

 eral times tried hatching hens' eggs in a 

 lamp nursery where I hatched iiueens, and I 

 failed. I think the temperature is not high 

 enough. In a nursery for hatching queens 

 the temperature must not go over 100°, and 

 it is better not to have it go above 9.')°, while 

 I believe that in an incubator for hatching 

 eggs, it should go above 100 . 



