The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria . ll occur when thel)ees from the first-laid eggs hatch out before the combs completely fill theframes. As soon as bees hatch out, the queen again deposits eggs in thecells, neglecing the new comb which is in of construction, and thuscausing the building of drone cells. After having hived a swarm on a setof frames with starters, and allowed them to work for four or five days,some of the frames in which little or no work has bet^n done should beremoved, and the number thus reduced to what they are likely to fill withcoml) in the fir
The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria . ll occur when thel)ees from the first-laid eggs hatch out before the combs completely fill theframes. As soon as bees hatch out, the queen again deposits eggs in thecells, neglecing the new comb which is in of construction, and thuscausing the building of drone cells. After having hived a swarm on a setof frames with starters, and allowed them to work for four or five days,some of the frames in which little or no work has bet^n done should beremoved, and the number thus reduced to what they are likely to fill withcoml) in the first three weeks after hiving. This rule also applies to colonieswhich have been shaken down, that is, deprived of their combs, on accountof fnulbrood. Once bees begin to hatch from the new combs, it is extremelydifiicult to get further worker combs built from starters, except by removingall the combs but one or two, a procedure better left alone, as it would tendto run the colonv down to :i \< i\ ^n ill ( lu \<Iiliti(in il w < iki 1 ci mbs are-. FIG. 4. TWO SHALLOW FRAMES OF SEALED COMB. best secured by frames with full sheets of foundation given either al)Ove oralongside the existing combs. In a good district with a fair honey flow on, large with \igorousqueens may fill a section super with honey while building their brood combsfrom .starters, but a queen-excluder should l)e used between sections andframes. Such favorable conditions do not often obtain, however, andmiost bee-keepers prefer to hive their swarms on drawn combs of the pre-vious , and when these combs are occupied, put a set of frames withfull sheets on top to get combs for the next season and for extracting pur-poses. Once two or three sets of combs for each colonv are in existence,there is no necessitv for further comb-building, as colonies can lie kept fullvoccupied by extracting the coml)s whenever thev are ready for it and return-ing them to be refilled, while all the secreted is r
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