. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. lays. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 565 quired for the two, this must be economized as much as possi- ble in order to get the most out of poor pasturage. It Is, however, somewhat difficult to manage to get the bees to swarm at the proper time, which is right in the begin- ning or during a honey-flow. If no honey is coming in it will prove a failure; and I came very near abandoning the method last season before giving it a second trial, as the few I tried swarmed two weeks before the main flow, during which time they gathered no honey. Besides I was not pr
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. lays. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 565 quired for the two, this must be economized as much as possi- ble in order to get the most out of poor pasturage. It Is, however, somewhat difficult to manage to get the bees to swarm at the proper time, which is right in the begin- ning or during a honey-flow. If no honey is coming in it will prove a failure; and I came very near abandoning the method last season before giving it a second trial, as the few I tried swarmed two weeks before the main flow, during which time they gathered no honey. Besides I was not prepared for the trial—did not have a decent hive, nor a single queen's wing dipt. This season I was better prepared, and as a comment on Golden's method I will say that hereafter I expect to follow it altogether, when possible, as this season I gave it a second trial and found it entirely satisfactory. I cannot give the number of pounds obtained by the above method over those hived in brood-chambers (as I kept no rec- ord), but I am satisfied they gave me one-half greater yield than the others. Mr. Deacon says he expects as much pollen in the sections as honey. I wish to say that in not a single section could I detect the least speck of pollen, and the comb and honey was as nice as you could wish for. Mr. D. should try a couple or half dozen colonies next season ; I am sure he will be pleased with the results. Mr. Golden says he never saw an egg in a section cage after her five days' confinement. In two cases out of three I */ound them literally filled with eggs—two to four in a cell. I do not like the double super. I use two supers of the ordinary size, and next to the cage I remove the one separator on each side of the cage, and replace them the fifth day. If a super holding 35 tall sections is used on a medium swarm, I think one super is sufficient, especially if honey is not coming In very fast. A HOME-MADE .SWABM HIVKR. As I live in the timber I had to devise something
Size: 3113px × 803px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectbees, bookyear1861
