14— Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 2. 1960 Stinger Removal Disarms Queen Bee To keep two queens laying eggs in the same beehive, cut ofl their stingers, suggests E. J. Anderson, apianst at the Penn sylvania State University Agricultural Experiment Station. The queen that he Is working on, rendered unconscious with carbon dioxide gas, is in the plastic receptacle at the point of his scis sors. The operation, which is about as painful as cutting one's fingernails, will keep her from stinging rival queens to death. Obviously, Anderson says, two or more queens could build-up colony population much faster and earlier in the season than one. Fruit and field crops would be more effectively pollinlzed and a larger honey flow would result. Problems have arisen but use of multiple, stingeriess queens per colony will be further Investigated this summer. Pa. Sour Cherry Production Down Harrisburg Pennsylvan ia’s sour cherry crop this year will be the smallest since 1956, the Crop Report ing Service of the State Ag riculture Department pre dicted. Sour cherry orchards in in. Pennsylvania had a good bloom, but frost in Erie County cut the set of fruit sharply below last year. Frost damage was less severe in southern orchards. The sour cherry crop in the five Great Lakes States— New York, Pennsylvania, NEW! CHOPPER] ©-foofl chopper at a 5-foot price A full 6-footer for the forage harvest and green chop ping plus all a shredder can do. Big, big capacity PTO-poweied with 72 inches of rotating flails and a knife-edged fan to double-tut the crop and keep 6 feet of swath sailing into the wagon. Loads it trigger-quick way back to the wagon corners. No fan threshing or crushing! Cuts and chops at the flails ... chops finer at the fan. Up to Vs more capacity than most flail choppers. 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About 9,000 tons of sour cherries are expected to be produced m Pennsylvania Harvest is expected to start July 1-4 in southern growing areas and about July 10 in Erie County GEHL 12-fNCH CUT\ T I0f»» Sfingless Queen Bees Live In The Same Colony No successful means ever has been devised to keep two normal queen bees lay ing eggs» in the same hive However two queen bees with portions of their sting ers cut off. have lived to gether peacefully in tests at the Pennsylvania Agricul tural Experiment Station Both queen bees were made unconscious wdh car bon dioxide gas for the deli cate operation, reports E J. Anderson, professor of woe keoping at the Pennsylvania State University After their stingers were cut, the queens got acquainted in futile com bat—and then settled down in the hive to lay eggs and ignore each other. 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