106 THE BEE-KEErERS' REVIEW 



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Reading from top, Extra Fancy, Fancy; Number One; Number Two 



tit's face is a familiar one to the 

 Michigan beekeepers and his visit 

 amongst us once more was very wel- 

 come. 



Prof. Pettit showed a great many 

 views of Ontario apiaries and other 

 interesting bee slides. Conditions in 

 Ontario are very similar to the con- 

 ditions found in Michigan and fi-om 

 the apiaries seen one would have 

 trouble to say whether they were 

 from Ontario or Michigan. ' 



"The Age and Durability of a Queen 

 Bee for Profit in the Production of 

 Comb Honey and My Method of Re- 

 queening" was the subject with which 

 Mr. A. H. Guernsey, Ionia, Mich., en- 

 tertained the meeting. The speaker 

 stated that he v/as not in favor of 

 requeening any or all colonies at stat- 

 ed times, as every year or every two 

 years. Mr. Guernsey watches the 

 work of the individual queen and di- 

 rectly he notices a failure on her part 

 to lay prolifically then that queen is 

 taken out and the colony requeened. 

 Young queens are liable to fail as 



well as the older ones and so all are 

 given individual attention. 



Queens of one's own breeding are 

 usually as good as those secured from 

 queen breeders, especially where one 

 breeds from selected stock. Every 

 beekeeper should produce a certain 

 number of his own queens each year. 

 Mr. Guernsey does not breed queens 

 for market, but tries to raise suffi- 

 cient to supply his own needs. 



Nuclei are taken from his choicest 

 colonies preparing to swarm and with 

 the queen cells thus secured a num- 

 ber of nuclei are started. Two frames 

 are taken from an eight frame col- 

 ony and three frames from a ten 

 frame colonj^ Later in the season if 

 more queen cells are needed, stimula- 

 tion of that colony is resorted to. The 

 speaker stated that he secured as fine 

 queens as could be desired, by this 

 method. 



After the report of Mr. E. D. Town- 

 send on the work of the National Con- 

 vention held at St. Louis, last Febru- 

 ary, the meeting adjourned until the 



