Gleanings in bee culture . young bees. Theold queen can now be killed by the box hive is not joined to the con-troller (simply set against it), it may be setaside some distance while fumigating. Itis now returned to its original positionagainst the controller, all slides removed,giving the bees free access to the hive,front and rear. Mutilate the combs bypushing a stick through them, breakingthe honey-cells. This will induce the beesin the new hive to transfer the honey in ashort time. The box hive now contains nothing butthe empty combs, which should be re-moved, torn down, and
Gleanings in bee culture . young bees. Theold queen can now be killed by the box hive is not joined to the con-troller (simply set against it), it may be setaside some distance while fumigating. Itis now returned to its original positionagainst the controller, all slides removed,giving the bees free access to the hive,front and rear. Mutilate the combs bypushing a stick through them, breakingthe honey-cells. This will induce the beesin the new hive to transfer the honey in ashort time. The box hive now contains nothing butthe empty combs, which should be re-moved, torn down, and the wax renderedbefore the worms get into it. After the oldqueen in the box hive ceases laying,and has been deprived of her bees for atime, she shrinks, becoming smaller in theabdomen; and there is then danger, by theabove process, that she may slip throughthe perforated zinc along with the bees whensmoked out, and thus endanger the safetyof the valuable queen in the new hive. Toobviate this risk, the old queen in the box. Fig. 7.—iStoring empty extracting-combs in extra bodies over the annex. JUNE 1, 1912 343
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