. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Florence Bellamy. edge on top of it. Each super holds 65 sections, or 195 for the 3; 170 being filled with honey and sealed over, and 7 filled on one side and half filled on the other side. I am enclosing also a picture of my 12-year-old son, "Jimmie," with a hive that he made himself; and another of my ii-year-old daughter, '"Florence," with a hive that she made and was paint- ing when the picture was taken. Syracuse, N. Y. H. F. Bellamy. [The picture in which "Jimmie" ap- peared, and also the one .showing the 19-franie
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Florence Bellamy. edge on top of it. Each super holds 65 sections, or 195 for the 3; 170 being filled with honey and sealed over, and 7 filled on one side and half filled on the other side. I am enclosing also a picture of my 12-year-old son, "Jimmie," with a hive that he made himself; and another of my ii-year-old daughter, '"Florence," with a hive that she made and was paint- ing when the picture was taken. Syracuse, N. Y. H. F. Bellamy. [The picture in which "Jimmie" ap- peared, and also the one .showing the 19-franie hive, were too dim to en- grave.—Editor.] The Plural Queen System The spring of 1907 was, in this local- ity, the worst I ever knew. Feeding, uniting, and all other methods I knew of for obtaining strong colonies fell far short of the desired results. Rev. Langstroth said, "Keep all colonies .; That is good advice, especial- ly so where one is rearing queens, be- cause weak colonies mean weak queens. After all methods that I knew of had failed to give me colonies of the de- sired strength, I began experimenting on the plural-queen system. The result of my efforts is shown in the cut. There is nothing new or original in my meth- od; it is simply a combination of others hole in the Chambers device. Now re- move the queen from the cage, shake the bees down in the box and drop in the queen. Then put into the empty body over the strong colony a frame of hatching brood, and 2 of honey. Take the box of bees that now con- tains the queen, and dutnp them into the prepared body, and put on the cover. Keep adding hatching brood till the body. Batch of Queen-Cells from Plural-Queen Colony. which I have learned from the pages of bee-papers. I first select the strongest colony on hand; then the weakest one. I find and cage the queen of the weak colony, then after forcing the bees to fill themselves with honey, they are shaken into a box that has the two sides covered with
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