MillerThousand AnswersBeekeepingQuestions.pdf - BioBees

THOUSAND ANSWERS 203from the field. Then it will be practically certain to swarm whenthe first virgin emerges, and you can leave the swarm on the samestand from which it issued, and set A in place of C. Repeat thesame thing each time A swarms, setting it successively in place ofD, E, and F.Q. I am thinking of trying the following plan this season : Iwill find and destroy the old, inferior queen, and introduce asealed cell (in a cell-protector) at the same time I remove the oldqueen. Can this be done safely? Or had I better wait aboutplacing the cell until two or three days after removing the oldqueen?A. Very likely your plan will succeed. Waiting two or threedays would make the bees more willing to accept a cell, but in aWest cell-protector the cell ought to be safe anyhow. The cellought to be well advanced; then if it does not hatch out allright, it will pay to have on hand other cells so that you can destroyall "wild" cells (those that the bees start on their ownbrood), and give another cell of good stock.Rheumatism.—Q. I have read that some people were cured ofrheumatism by the stings of bees. I have a customer who is veryfond of honey, and as she has the rheumatism badly, and is underthe doctor's care, she is advised against eating honey. She wasalso at a Michigan bathing sanitarium and not allowed to eathoney there.A. The fact that some people are cured of rheumatism bymeans of stings does not necessarily prove that eating honey isgood for rheumatism. Honey and bee-poison are two very differentthings. Yet I have never understood that the use of honeywas contra-indicated in rheumatic cases. It is possible that inthe case in question some particular condition makes it advisableto deny the use of all sweets; but it is safe to say that if they areat all allowed it will be better to use honey than sugar. That ableauthority. Dr. Kellogg, at the head of one of the most notedsanitariums in the world, endorses the use of honey as being morereadily assimilable than sugar.Rietsche Press.—Q.press for making foundation?Do you know anything about the RietscheA. Thousands of Rietsche presses are in use in Europe, onereason being that so much of the foundation on the market thereis adulterated. In this country there is no trouble about buyingpure foundation, and although a few years ago a number hadmachines to make foundation, nearly all buy now.