. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. Fig. 113. — Manipulation to reduce population of parent colony — third position. location (Figs. Ill and 412), so that all returning field bees join the swarm. As the brood emerges, the young bees be- come accustomed to the location of their hive. In a couple of days the parent colony is turned about half way around toward its former posi- tion (Fig. 113), and, after the bees again become accustomed to the change, it is moved to a position parallel to that of the new colony (Fig. 114). If within
. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. Fig. 113. — Manipulation to reduce population of parent colony — third position. location (Figs. Ill and 412), so that all returning field bees join the swarm. As the brood emerges, the young bees be- come accustomed to the location of their hive. In a couple of days the parent colony is turned about half way around toward its former posi- tion (Fig. 113), and, after the bees again become accustomed to the change, it is moved to a position parallel to that of the new colony (Fig. 114). If within seven or eight days of the issuing of the swarm, the parent colony is removed to a new location, the young bees in flying out join the swarm, thereby considerably reducing the parent colony. When the parent colony is moved, part of the bees may be brushed in front of the entrance of the swarm, leaving some to care for the brood but not enough to induce an after- swarm. The parent colony may be used for increase or the bees as they emerge may still be added to the swarm or to some other colony. Other methods of using some young bees or sealed brood to advantage will be found by the bee- keeper. They may be used to build up weak colonies or, if the honey-flow will probably be long enough to warrant it, two parent colonies may be placed side by side. By giving one a queen and removing the queen cells from the other, they may be united about two weeks after the swarm issues, when most of the brood has emerged from the queenless colony, and they are then ready for supers. What to use in the brood-chamber in hiving swarms. The use of full sheets of foundation in the brood-frames has the marked advantage of resulting in straight combs of worker. Fig. 114. — Manipula- tion to reduce popu- lation of parent colony—fourth po- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appeara
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