The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-14

If you wish to try queen raising,
just make n of your stocks queen
less by taking out their queen, and
go back in eight days and see the
many queen cells you will have in the
queenless stock.
If you wish so to do, cut out a part
of the queen cells and insert one in
the combs of some other stock which
has also been made q~ueenless for
about four days previous. This pro-
cess will enable you to raise good
healthy queens in full vigorous stocks.
We seriously object to the nucleus
process of raising or producing
queens for the trade, for several rea-
sons, the first of which is, we know
from practical. experience that they
are not SO long lived nor SO prolific
as a queen raised as above, and
should be abandoned, at least, we as
patrons should watch with care as to
whom we purchase from, and buy
only of those who raise queens in
full strong stock.
Bees gather honey and pollen from
the blossoms of various plants /;
hence, we also know that the moth
fly also visits many flowers late of an
evening for food, and lay their eggs
by the thousands in many of the
various blossoms. And the bees
gather unconsciously, the eggs with
the pollen, carrying the same to their
hives and depositing it as food for
their young, the animal heat of which
is admirably adapted to Matching the
eggs to worms as nature designed
them to be. Hence, we say, away,
with all moth proof hives. There is
not, nor can there be, such a thing
invented.
The white clover blossom is now
coming on nicely, and the linden
blossoms are showing signs of a boun-
tiful supply, hence we should keep
our stocks strong in number and sup
ply them with plenty of honey frames
or boxes, as the case may be, trust
ing on, as we should, to a kind Prov
idence, who does all things well. If
we do our part in due time honey
will come.
Which pays best, comb or extract.
ed honey1 The decision of this
question depends considerably on the
amount of care that a b~ee-keeper can
bestow on his bees, and also much
depends on the market that he reach,
but we will try and solve it from a
general point of view, and with a
consideration of markets in general
and also of future prospects. The
main advantage of comb honey is
the less amount of time it takes to
harvest it and the greater facility
with which it is sold when brought
on the market. But there are many
drawbacks to this. Comb honey can
never be produced in as large guam
titles as extracted honey, from the
fact that it takes all the comb away
from the bees and forces them to re-
build these combs at a heavy drain
on their resources gathered daily
from the flowers, at the ratio Of twen-
ty pounds of honey to each pound of
comb produced. B~ee-keepers are
well aware that it takes not only hon.
ey but much precious time, at the
very time too when we should have
our bees storing honey to their ut
most capacity. OF course we are
often told hat artificial comb remedy
the object, but we ask where is the
perfect artificial comb and of what is it
made ? We are not aware of a sin
gle pound of artificial comb ever be-
ing produced, but that there is such
a thing as comb foundation as a start
for the bees, we are we'll aware, and
where does it come from? We will
answer by telling our readers that
every pound of foundation is made
at a loss Of at least one and one-half
pounds of natural comb made by the
bees, which have been melted to Sc
cure a single pound of wax, for which
we were offered the enormous sum OF