Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-12
FOUR NEW MEMBERS FOR
 NORWICH ROTARY CLUB

The queen bee and her place in the hive, was the topic of an interesting talk given by Allen Latham, authority on bee keeping, at the monday luncheon of the Norwich Rotary club on Wednesday at the WaHregan house. Mir Latham in his opening demarks stated that the subject of bee-raising was so large that he could not fully discuss it in the limited amount of time but would take up the subject of the queen bee and her relation to the hive. The most frequent question that is asked is How do you raise the queen beer" There are many different ways in which this is done but have my own method. he said This year 50 far I have sold nearly 2600 queens, shipping them to all parts of the country and even to England
 The queen bee is the life of the hive she is the mother, laying from to , thousand eggs each day. These eggs when matched turn out three kinds of bees, more queens, workers or imperfect female or rather a neuter as to sex. They are all together different in every way, size, shape and sex. This change is brought about by the feeding.
 To get a perfect queen bee I take away tee queen bee from hive and put in a number of small wax cups which the
 
 the queen. When the hive becomes queen hungry I put the queen back and she starts to lay the eggs in these cups.
 When the grub matches or forms it is fed with what is called royal jelly for about nine days and then it is removed to the incubator/for hatching After the matching the bee starts to perform it's functions in life in about to 10 days. The queen then mates with the male and after two days starts to lay eggs. colony with a poor queen is bad proposition but colony with a good queen is a money-making hive. have seen colonies increase their output by l 150 pounds in a short time wit ha good queen in the hive.->The raising of queen | bees is an important factor in the suc- cess of the beeleeper. If course other l things enter into the industry such as feeding. right temperature and other | things but one of the most important is 1 the queen.
 MT, Latham answered many questions that were saked him by the Rotarians pertaining to the bee industry. He also | showed cases which he uses in shipping bees by mail. The queen is put into g small wooden case together with ten or a dozen workers the number regulated by 1 the distance which the bee has to travel l Latham at the conclusion of his talk President WortI presided 2t the meet. 1 ing at which there were about 40 pres ent, including four guests, two, William l Stewart and Charles F. Trott of the Wa. I terhury club. MT. Trott during tht meeting extended hearty invitation tt all members of the club to attend tht second annual inter-city outing which i. to be held at Lake Quassapaug at Mid dlehury, Conn, on Aug. 26. Mir. Trot told of the great sheep bake that ha: been planned together with programm, | of athletics.
 Four new members, Judge Nelson J Ayling, Otto F. Ernst. Louis A. Vince Her and Dr. Franklin S. Wilcox, were given the right hand of fellowship b! MT. Worth, An invitation for the loca members to attend the meeting ant dance of the New London club at tht Pequot Manor on this (Thursday) eve ] ming was read by the president.
 The meeting closed with the siHginl of The Star Spangled Banner.