. Beekeeping in California. Bees. 1936] Beekeeping in California 41 two full-depth supers of nine combs. Bees will store as much honey in nine combs evenly separated as in ten placed closer together; and combs with cells extending beyond the wood of the frame are easier to uncap. Colonies should be requeened annually with vigorous queens to reduce swarming and to insure strong colonies. Requeening may take place in the fall or after the first early honey flow in the spring. If colonies are wintered in one-story hives, the second brood chamber should be added when the bees cover eight or nine c
. Beekeeping in California. Bees. 1936] Beekeeping in California 41 two full-depth supers of nine combs. Bees will store as much honey in nine combs evenly separated as in ten placed closer together; and combs with cells extending beyond the wood of the frame are easier to uncap. Colonies should be requeened annually with vigorous queens to reduce swarming and to insure strong colonies. Requeening may take place in the fall or after the first early honey flow in the spring. If colonies are wintered in one-story hives, the second brood chamber should be added when the bees cover eight or nine combs. When the combs of the second. Fig. 14.—Frame A contains capped brood sur- rounded by sealed honey; frame B is a perfect comb of sealed honey. brood chamber are being whitened around the top bars with new wax, the queen excluder should be put on, the queen confined in the lower brood chamber, and the first super added. Unless sufficient supers are available for the entire honey crop, each super can be extracted when the combs are one-half to three-fourths capped over, and the combs replaced for storing additional surplus. During early spring or late fall there is some danger of extracting unripened honey unless the major portion of the cells are sealed. The Removal of the Honey Crop.—In the days of box hives and im- movable combs, colonies were either "driven" or killed with fumes of burning sulfur before the honey was removed; but with the movable frame hive, these practices are no longer necessary. The bees may be freed from the combs of honey by shaking and brushing, by the use of the bee escape, or by carbolized cloths. Most commercial beekeepers use. 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 Eckert, John Edward, 1895-. Berkeley, Calif. : College of Agriculture, University of Cal
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