Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1860-06-28

to leave their favorile home and trust 10
chance for another and hence often de-.
/ lay issuing from two, three or even SIX
days, in which case Tie second swarm
has been known to Issue on the third dzV
after the FIRST, and I would not 10 the
least be surprised 10 learn that they some
times must from necessity, thouph rarely.
issue much sooner. Ny reason for pre-
senting these exceptions is mainly q shcw
that the tenth day after the issue of The
first swarm is not the best time for 6riT-
ing bees with the least possible waste As
IS claimed BY R. O., even aking 81 se
two solitary cases as q basis. r. G. has
eridenlly drawn bis conciusion from
solitary exception, instead Of a rsner.i
rule. and in so doing has made another
assertion, in which j certainly cannot ac.
quiesces namely: "It seldom occurs tiiat
she Che eneen) is later than two darts
after the hrst swarm issues, in emerging
from her cell Can il be possible that
bees In or near Baltimore manage .their
affairs so differently from those in Fesg-
ern New York I cannct for a moment
harb0r the idea, and therefore m0st state
that queens do not on an aUerge emerge
from their cells until the seventh or eighth
day after the issue Of the first swarm,
and also on anaverage she does not coui-
menee to lay until the seventh or eighth
day after she emerges from her cell
Allowing three days for the eggs frst
deposited by the new queen 10 hatch, and
we have at the lowest estimate from he
issuing Of the swarm, eighteen days id.
tervening, within three days Of the bess
time for driving Now should las
bees be driven on the ''ienlh dav'' aftef
the first swarm issues, there would be a
loss Of nearly, if not quite, six thousand
chrysalis or maturing bees-abont one
third Of a good sized swarm. To the
numerous instances in which I have
driven bees on the 2lst or 22d dav. /
seldom found any Larvae, and occasionally.
bat very few eggs, showing conc'ssively
tkat the queen did nef commenee lavipr
even on the eighth DAY after she emerged
from her cell. Suppose, for instance. She
to lay. on The 18th dav. on the
2lst there will be bit a very few eggs
and certainly no Larvae sealed.SI
am almost persuaded to belieFe that the
eggs and larv@ would be sacrificed. even
6inself. raider than lhe nea
l 1. allhcrob the eggs and
'aEp1 Be Nles of lhres h6
oE chfysalis, becausooe tbeffneh
er value u the above a vii be seen
that nothing has been said concerning The
issuing Of second swarms, which would
delay the laying Of the remaining queen
nearly three days. and therefore no eggs
would be deposited until the 18th. and bv
The 2lst only few eggs would be hatched.
10 conclude, would say that as it REQUIRES
2l days for eggs laid in worker cells to
produce bees, and as seven davs is re-
quired after the first swarm issues before
there is hatched queen, il is obvious
that the 18th day is the best time 10 drive
the bees to save the maturing brood in.
stead of the "tenth.p This applies to
ihe first exceptions" As the queen in
ne second exception issues three DAYS
before the first emerges from her cell,
he 18th or 18th day Is the best lime.
doubt not" that R. c., '.upon farther re.
tection or examination, viii incline to'i
he opinions herein set forth.
NJ. NJ. BAtbarpar.