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Hi all
I remember having a conversation years ago about the use of the term "card" referring to comb, and we were wondering where it came from. The earliest I have seen is this:
How to Save a Queenless Stock.
On a bright warm day in February, I examined a number of my hives, to see if they had sufficient stores and if the queen was laying. In some hives, I found more, and some, less, of sealed brood, all except one had eggs and larvae. One hive on examination proved to be queenless. There was plenty of bees and stores enough to last until the honey harvest. I gave them a card of comb from one of my strongest stocks with sealed brood, larvae and eggs in it. I closed the hive up and did not open it again until April 11th, as the weather was cool and not suitable to open the hive. I found that they had made three queen cells : the cells were open but no queen cells could be found in the hive. I gave them another card of brood, and on May, 2nd, a beautiful day I saw the queen as she returned from her bridal tour with unmistakable evidence of her impregnation ; and I gave them another card of brood in a few days. She began laying and soon filled the hive with bees. The queen was pure Italian and was impregnated by a pure drone, and that hive today is as valuable as any hive I have. I winter on summer stands altogether. If we would raise early queens, we should hardly fail to get them purely impregnated as the Italian drones are earlier than the black drones.
N. P. ALLEN.
Smith's Grove, Ky.
American Bee Journal - Volume 11 - 1875
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