. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 3 BEE-CULTURE AND THE I VOL. XVII. CHICAGO, ILL., JULY 6, 1881. No. 27. For the American Bee Journal. My Management of Bees. P. LOUCKS. I have handled bees some 18 or 20 years on a small scale, but have not made bee-keeping my entire business until tins year. I have read 3 editions of Quinby's bee book, several of the ing here I wanted either blacks or pure Italians (no hybrids for me), and as the country was stocked with the black or brown bee. I concluded they were good enough for me, considered in the light of former experience. For a hive, I wante
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 3 BEE-CULTURE AND THE I VOL. XVII. CHICAGO, ILL., JULY 6, 1881. No. 27. For the American Bee Journal. My Management of Bees. P. LOUCKS. I have handled bees some 18 or 20 years on a small scale, but have not made bee-keeping my entire business until tins year. I have read 3 editions of Quinby's bee book, several of the ing here I wanted either blacks or pure Italians (no hybrids for me), and as the country was stocked with the black or brown bee. I concluded they were good enough for me, considered in the light of former experience. For a hive, I wanted something cheap, simple, and practical, so con- cluded to adopt the following : inside measure 14^2x18x10 inches, holding 10 frames, a little shorter than theQuinby frame (because I did not have the ex- act dimensions), bottom-board nailed on, and projecting 2 inches in front; the honey-board is made of J^-inch lumber, with six l1., inch holes. I put a moulding all around % inch below the top of the hive for the cap to rest crawl from the ground to the entrance without difficulty. The upper story is made the same as the lower story, ex- cept minus the bottom-board and the entrances. The main part of my stock, to start with, I transferred from bee-trees. In 1879 and 18801 transferred and worked some bees on shares; but now I have all the bees of my own that I want to handle. I had my leg broken the 12th of March, so cannot give my bees the attention necessary to get the most out of them. I have my brother-in- law doing the best he can, but he is a raw hand at the business. Swarming season is at hand. The doctor says he will have me out on crutches the last confine them to the hive 24 hours. I rear as good queens in this way as I can wish for. When I remove the queen to a new colony I replace her with a sealed queen cell, if such are at hand. I thus keep them occupied rearing queens and building comb, and in the fall or latter part of the honey season they generally furnish som
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