Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-15

opening and developing an industry
that renders 1t possible for the cattle
men to kill their cattle at the nearest
railroad station and ship the meat In
refrigerator cars to eastern markets.
The feed impsrts q delicious flavor to
the meat and makes Montana beef
decidedly better than that fattened by
corn.
Information About Bees.
A correspondent of q foreign paper
writes: Many persons will just nov
purchase warns and Q bee.
keeping; II Is, therefore, essential that
that they should know something of
the natural history Of bees. We csn
calculate by the weight of the swarm
the number of bees, as tho "authori.
ties" allow five thousand bees to
the pound. The hive will then con.
sist of queen, workers and dronos.
The queen lays all the eggs, from
which the inhabitants Of the hive are
produced. She deposits from two to
three thousand daily for weeks In sue
oessioD, The workers perform the
essential duties, such as comb build.
Ing, brood raising and honey
gathering. The arones are the
males, and their approach at the
swarmlng season for the fertilization
Of young queens Is a wise provision of
nature. They gather no honey, and
are driven from the hive during the
month of August, when their servlces
are no longer required. Heneyoomb
consists of ak sided cells made from
wax, which is not gathered, but elab.
or.ted from honey by the bees. Five
worker cells measure n inch across,
and In these honey and pollen are
stored and worker bees produced.
The drone cells measure four to the
lnoh, and In these the drones are
raised. The cells In which queens are
raised hang like aoorns upon the eide
or end of the combs, and sometimes
rs many as twelve or fourteen may be
found In q hive at swsrming time.
When q hive Is deprived of It's
queen, previous to the introduction
of a foreign sovereign, and fearing
that her majesty may not he fsvorAbly
received, the b~eekeeper must be care.
full to cut out all queen cells cave an
open one, on which he may cage the
new queen, as, when liberated after
t~orty-eight hours confinement, tho
bees imagine she has just emerged from
the vacant coll, and acknowledge her
authority at once. The queen no
doubt lays all the eggs! but they must
DO kept warm by the beeS until they
produce tiny white grubs, which hatch
out at tho end of three days, and are
then fed by tho nurses with q mixture
of honey, pollen, and water; when full
grown, at tho end Of ak days, they
are sealed over with q brownish cup
of wax and pollen mixed together.
In twelve days they emerge
from their incarceration perfect beeu,
thus occupying the cell for twenty one
daYs; first three days In tho egg state,
six as an unsealed grub, and twelve
In o state CT quietude e%nsconced
within the cell. Drones pass through
like changes, hut require twenty-five
Days to complete the transformation
from an egg to o perfect drone. TIL,
drone brood may at any time bs
known by the alze of their cells ant
their convex oappings. Bees Oar
reiso queens from eggs destined I,
become worker bees, provided tina
drones are abroad to mate with tn,
young queens. Should this occu
when no droner are about, all thei
efforts would DO In val }, "a the egg
deposited by such a queen would pro
duce none but drones; even the egg
laid in worker cells would produo
miniature drones, aud the hiv,
go to ruin. Although the queel
Is much larger and NOR,
fully de- eloped than tn
worker, Dhe arrives ut full maturity |
five days less time, and she hatchc
out |" about eight days after she
sealed In. The doee Of royal jeli
which she receives is said to haste
on the Transformation gcene. tn
queen lives five years, but the work
er's life In summer does not excee
two months, but the been Matched on
In the autumn live till the followinI
spring. Drones arc to be found Il
May, buS are driven out Ct the hiv
before the end of August, and thei
nervous nature prevents them return
Ing to the hive, hence they die a
once. As we advance In the praotic
of b~eekeeping, we must avail ourselve
of the inventions of modern science
such at bar frame hives and com
foundation, as much valuable time 1
saved by their employment.