264 A Modern Bee-Farm 



From my Non-Swarming Pamphlet (1886) I quote the 

 following statement I then made in reference thereto : "Much 

 stress has been laid upon the fact that an American bee- 

 keeper, who also is a supply dealer, has made and used several 

 thousand reversible frames. Having taken such a stride, of 

 course he would do all he could to maintain his position. But 

 in a short time his 5,000 or more of such frames will, like all 

 others now in use, remain unreversed, or will be entirely 

 thrown aside." 



Queen Excluders. — After expressing rny own adverse 

 opinion of the article it is only right I should tell you of the 

 very best queen excluder it will ever be in your power to 

 obtain. There is no patent on it, and it costs nothing. It 

 has been shewn up over and over again throughout these 

 pages, and yet, perhaps, you have arrived so far without 

 grasping the situation. I do not offer a substitute for queen 

 excluder zinc ; that in itself is but a sorry substitute for the 

 correct method of working, and the article has come into use 

 simply because so many will not comprehend the exact state 

 of affairs. Unite, or carry out the system of doubling, at the 

 right time, and your bees will conduct the excluding business 

 right enough ; they will save the expense and inconvenience 

 of the zinc, and give you larger profits into the bargain ! 



Eggs Delayed in Hatching. — It does not follow because 

 eggs are deposited in the cells that the warmth of the hive 

 must hatch them. Such is far from being the case ; no eggs 

 will hatch until the workers first surround them with the pre- 

 paratory food upon which the tiny grub is to feed. 



Consequently, in spring, eggs laid in drone cells are some- 

 times not brought to the hatching point for days or weeks 



