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Me thy phe winter is cool, as at Toowoomba, the queen ceases laying during the 
en of June and July, and then, of course, we must depend on the queen 
mia. re the strength of the colony in the spring, as, naturally, if the 
a ¥e ost when there are no eggs in the hive, the bees are unable to raise 
inane queen, having no worker-eggs wherewith to do so, whereas in the 
| days, t, When eggs are plentiful, a new queen can be hatched in nine or ten 
’ A FERTILE WORKERS. 
| Tikes a exception to the foregoing is when one of the worker bees of a queenless 
| these es upon herself the duties of the queen, and starts laying eggs, but 
1 cris gs only hatch into drones, and are therefore useless for preserving the 
nee of the colony. If several eggs are deposited in cells, instead of one 
a mays 
j  Meen lays, a fertile worker may be suspected. 
rei OUT-A PIA RIES. 
' ees that are established in the garden adjoining the dwelling-house 
} accord; invariably the source of income to the owners that others located 
| Mg to the prevalence or otherwise of flowers in the neighbourhood usually 
1 ignore face said, “No bees, no flowers; no flowers, no seed.” Bee-keepers 
b € seed eee leaving that to the seed-raiser, whose ally they are; 
ihe now that it is equally true with Darwin’s remarks, that no flowers, 
I of flower. ; and few flowers, little honey ; hence all locations where a profusion. 
J ideal « tsis known to be possible in due course are just the ones to be considered 
| ‘pots for temporary apiaries. 
. Where premnent sites for continued heavy crops are rare, except as in America, 
) thndan e basswood trees, the best of all honey-producers, are growing 10 
| Unhep ce. Our limes, though good honey-producers, are nowhere in such 
i The ae as to make a heavy crop of honey from that source alone a certainty. 
éMoun ah Rhee upon which we can count 1 this country [Great Britain] for any 
Very a 0) honey are turnip, coleseed, mustard, charlock Gn my district this has 
a ah Ppearance of a distinct crop), with white and alsike clover and sainfoin 
1 crops, followed by brank or buckwheat and heather. 
est a above succession of flowers cannot be obtained in any district ; the 
Seed fia Usually those areas bordering on the frnit-growing centres, and having 
tops ms, while being well supplied with flowers of one of the main honey 
“Such as clover or sainfoin. 
the hon aanent locations for honey-gathering being really out of the question, 
to the gp eroducer, to do well, must copy bee-keepers abroad, and take his bees 
Pasture owers. I have no hesitation in saying that it pays to move bees to 
eofland? hew. Fear of losing swarms deters many. Mr. McNally, one of 
® 004 a great apiarists, writing in the Zecord a short time since, said :—“ For 
nd, taki any years past J. have run an out-apiary on the SO ae system, 
Cent, of re one season with another, have so managed that not more than 4 per 
b et as stocks in it have swarmed. Even this might have been prevented ; 
looke, often happens, one is so busy in spring-time that the bees are over- 
stem, wi e out-apidry consists mostly of hives on the storifying or tiering-up 
tey feed ith the plain ten-frame body-box. The bees are wintered on the whole 
ae 7. and as soon as the hive becomes crowded in spring (usually the first 
“nd if th Ba it is supered. About a week afterwards an. inspection 1s made ; 
*shallo © bees have taken to the super, the hive is then lifted off its stand, and 
W frame body-box of ten frames, fitted with comb foundation, guides 
@ Ite is placed under, Tf the weather happens to be warm at the time, 
e se wedged up }-inch in front with a couple of small stones placed at 
Until +h, corners. It remains thus during the whole of the honey season, or 
hive ar ere is any danger of robbing. As soon as the sections on the supered 
Taek © seen to be about half-filled, the rack is lifted up and another similar 
Placed beneath it.” 
