Gleanings in bee culture . tain that this preventsswarming to a greatextent. Nordhoff, Cal. HIVING A SWARM CLUS-TERED ON A RAILFENCE BY J. L. BYER Fig. 1.—A swarm that chose a very convenient clustering-place. arations for swaruaing. When bees areactive on the combs there is little danger ofswarming. By nsing this method of judg-ing when colonies are preparing to swarmI have often gone over 500 or more coloniesin a day, and very seldom make a mistakeas to whether a colony will swarm within aweek. GOOD VENTILATION AN AID IN PREVENTIONOF SWARMING. Another great preventive of swarming,as all beek
Gleanings in bee culture . tain that this preventsswarming to a greatextent. Nordhoff, Cal. HIVING A SWARM CLUS-TERED ON A RAILFENCE BY J. L. BYER Fig. 1.—A swarm that chose a very convenient clustering-place. arations for swaruaing. When bees areactive on the combs there is little danger ofswarming. By nsing this method of judg-ing when colonies are preparing to swarmI have often gone over 500 or more coloniesin a day, and very seldom make a mistakeas to whether a colony will swarm within aweek. GOOD VENTILATION AN AID IN PREVENTIONOF SWARMING. Another great preventive of swarming,as all beekeepers know, is ventilation. Allour hive bottoms are loose, and have full-width entrances on both ends. As soon aswarm weather comes, both of these en-trances are opened full width. I am cer-. FiG. 2.—Shakinig the cluster into a hive. Before a swarmleaves the place whereit has clustered afterswarming, it is thoughtthat, as a rule, scoutsare sent out, and aplace is found beforeleaving. This may bethe rule, but, like allother rules, there areexcejitions to the rule,aid a bit of wiih a sv,ar;n a short time ago proved(his quite coixluirively. On Friday, May 28th, my brother-in-lawplioned me from the Casliel yard that alarge swarm had come out, and that he hadcaged the clipped queen and had let thebees go back to the hive. I felt pretty surethat the bees were superseding the queen,and knew that there was danger of theircoming out any time with a young queen,departing for parts unknown. However, Icould not get before the followingMonday, so I let them take chances. When the family were at church SundayI suspect the colony swarmed again andclustered in the top of an apple tree in the apiary. Any way, Monday forenoon theswarm was noticedleaving the tree andstar
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