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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



of, for after all other drones are killed off 

 our queens do not have any other drones 

 to meet except those preserved in this 

 colony which, under this system of weed- 

 ing and securing are the best possible to 

 obtain under any light known at the pre- 

 sent time. 



CONSIDERING THE LOCALITY. 



Some bee-keepers have a disposition to 

 make sport of the locality question, and 

 Mr. S. P. Culley, in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper for the present month, August, 

 says : — 



It has been discussed and discussed up- 

 on until it seems to have become a sort of 

 fad and hobby with some writers, and 

 a by -word or joke with others. Still, in 

 spite of exaggeration and belittlement, it 

 has a rank of importance that should be 

 as well and as clearly defined as ma}' be, 

 that its real importance and bearing upon 

 success may be understood — especially 

 by the ABC class. 



Quite a number of 3-ears ago, before so 

 much was said about "locality," I was 

 rather made sport of by such noted men 

 as D. A. Jones, Prof. Cook and T. F. 

 Bingham at a Michigan State bee-keep- 

 ers' convention held at Flint, for simply 

 suggesting that perhaps some things we 

 are unable to account for might be owing 

 to "locality," and the splendid advice 

 given above by our friend Doolittle, re- 

 garding the saving of drones, might nev- 

 er have occurred to him if he had lived in 

 this, or in thousands of other localities, 

 for so long as a surplus is being gathered 

 by the bees they will keep, and continue 

 to raise drones. 



It is generally the case that in this 

 locality the bees secure surplus almost 

 continually till frost, although but little 

 after buckwheat, but enough to keep up 

 brood rearing till the middle of October; 

 so there is no necessity for our being put 

 to the trouble Mr. Doolittle is, in order to 

 preserve djones. 



vSta. B. Toledo, O., Aug. 11, 1899. 



Notes From Foreign 

 ^^^_.Bee Journals. 



BY F. L. THOMPSON. 



A PECULIARITY OF YEARLING QUEENS. 



A writer in Bienen-\'ater, referred to as 

 a practical bee-keeper, is quoted as sa\'ing 

 in the Magyar Meh, that colonies with 

 queens one year old are slow in develop- 

 ment in spring, and onh' become popu- 

 lous by the end of June, as compared with 

 colonies having queens two or three years 

 old. (If so, then the adjectives jo/zw^ and 

 prolific belong together only in summer. 

 Important if true. I believe this is the 

 second time I have seen a hint to that 

 effect. ) 



INTRODUCING VIRGIN QUEENS. 



Virgin queens were successfully intro- 

 duced to two laying-worke--colonies by 

 Julius Strigel by dipping the queens in 

 water and turning them loose in the colo- 

 nies. He thinks this plan worth experi- 

 menting with, as it evidently removes the 

 specific scent of the queen. 



INTRODUCING A QUEEN TO A COLONY 



H.WING A DRONE-LAYING QUEEN 



OR LAYING WORKER. 



A sure method of introducing a queen to 

 a colony with a drone-laying queen, or 

 having laying workers, even when much 

 depopulated, is claimed by a writer in the 

 Magyar Meh. He beheads the drone 

 brood, then smokes the colony well, takes 

 a queen from a normal colony and gives 

 her also a few puffs of smoke, and lets her 

 run down on the center combs. Often in 

 five to ten minutes the bees are seen car- 

 rying out the defective queen; and in col- 

 onies with laying workers thus treated he 

 has observed one or two bees ejected from 

 the entrance, which were presumably the 

 laying workers. 



