. Advanced bee-culture, its methods and management. Bees. 64 ADVANCED BEE CULTURE. before they are ready for effg^s, and the bees fill the combs at once with honey, when, from some perversity of bee-nature, work, in many instances, comes almost to a stand still. Having- filled the body of the hive, the bees seem disinclined to make a start in the sections. Where bees commence storing- their surplus, there thej^ seem inclined to continue to store it; and let the bees once g-et the start of the queen by clog-g:ing- the brood nest with honey, and that colony becomes practically worthless for the
. Advanced bee-culture, its methods and management. Bees. 64 ADVANCED BEE CULTURE. before they are ready for effg^s, and the bees fill the combs at once with honey, when, from some perversity of bee-nature, work, in many instances, comes almost to a stand still. Having- filled the body of the hive, the bees seem disinclined to make a start in the sections. Where bees commence storing- their surplus, there thej^ seem inclined to continue to store it; and let the bees once g-et the start of the queen by clog-g:ing- the brood nest with honey, and that colony becomes practically worthless for the production of comb Bees Secreting Wax and Building Ccmb. The advantag-e of full sheets of foundation over starters, or vice vcrsa^ was not so apparent, and, until the close of the season, an equal number of swarms were hived alternately upon full sheets of foundation and upon starters. Enoug-h was proved the first season to show that, so far as surplus was concerned, nothing- was gained by using- foundation in the brood nest, except for starters, when hiving swarms. I have since continued to experiment, year after year, by hiving swarms alternately upon foundation and upon start- ers only, in the brood nest, weighing both surplus and brood nests at the end of the season, and the evidence has been in favor of empty frames every ti7ne. Occasionally I have hived a swarm'upon drawn. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hutchinson, William Z. , 1851-1911. Flint, Mich. , The Review Print
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