. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. t^vi fH ^ CH" Chart 3. Comparison during clover honeyflow of two hives on scales, one of them (continuous line) containing two half colonies which were dequeened and united, raised two queens. The other (dotted line), an ordinary or control colony, contained fertile queen. The latter colony examined every week, had no active queen-cells after June 10. flow, which does not begin until about June 22 (average of last five years), the days are comparatively warm and long,* so that two strong colonies are developed from each hive by the time the clove
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. t^vi fH ^ CH" Chart 3. Comparison during clover honeyflow of two hives on scales, one of them (continuous line) containing two half colonies which were dequeened and united, raised two queens. The other (dotted line), an ordinary or control colony, contained fertile queen. The latter colony examined every week, had no active queen-cells after June 10. flow, which does not begin until about June 22 (average of last five years), the days are comparatively warm and long,* so that two strong colonies are developed from each hive by the time the clover flow begins. Ordi- nary colonies that have wintered well begin to swarm during the dandelion flow about May 24, but colonies man- aged by this system are not strong enough to swarm during the dande- lion flow. By this means and by the re-queening at the beginning of the clover flow there is avoided the great labor of lifting off every super, ex- amining every comb containing brood and finding and destroying all the queen cells every week during the ten weeks the swarming season lasts, which so far has been found to be the only satisfactory way to prevent swarming at Ottawa.** The two queens raise a much larger force of bees for working on the clover than ordinary colonies containing only one 80' ^Clover Flow bei^ixn. Ottawa 19/9, Ju. 10 iS. ft ???: rq lover Fie V begins t ' I ^-^'-~ b<v ^ J^ JULY ^*<^ Aao^ JUNE •r Flow b roi AUG^ onto ne to '(' '*MAY Tcrcnit June 22 . SEPT. 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 [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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