Gleanings in bee culture . atching brood and bees—yes,more than bees enough to care for it, forsome of them are likely to return to theparent hive. Then confine the bees for aday or tAvo in a neAv hive, or throAv Aveedsover the entrance. Give them at the sametime a comb of honey and a brood-comb,and a day later give them a queen-cellnearly ready to hatch. If all goes well, ina feAv days there will be a good nucleusAvith a young laying queen: and if brood-combs are supplied as fast as their strengthAvill admit you Avill soon have a colony ca-pable of storing considerable surplus incase the seas
Gleanings in bee culture . atching brood and bees—yes,more than bees enough to care for it, forsome of them are likely to return to theparent hive. Then confine the bees for aday or tAvo in a neAv hive, or throAv Aveedsover the entrance. Give them at the sametime a comb of honey and a brood-comb,and a day later give them a queen-cellnearly ready to hatch. If all goes well, ina feAv days there will be a good nucleusAvith a young laying queen: and if brood-combs are supplied as fast as their strengthAvill admit you Avill soon have a colony ca-pable of storing considerable surplus incase the season proA-es to be favorable. If you have no maturing queen-cells, takethe first colonies that prepare to SAvarm,and diA-ide them into three or four strongnuclei, giving all except the one that has thequeen a queen-cell already built on thecombs; and, as soon as the young queensare laying, build up as fast as you colonies gave us a good surplus dur-ing the season of 1912. These methods not UUEANINGS IN BEE CUETUKE. Hiving a swarm in a soap-box. From F. E. Bornemann, Bay City, Oregon. only favor increase, but at the same timehelp to keep clown natural swarming. The rules given above are for those whohandle their bees often, and depend on theiimanipulation to control swarming. Ofcourse, queens wings must be clipped; andwhile it gives one perhaps about as muchAvoik as to dejDend on natural swarming, itsaves a lot of time. I forgot to say thatif, at any time at the close of the day, youhave on hand a surplus of brood-combs,they can be put on top of some weak colo-ny or placed in some colony (hat may beloafing, making them care for the brood. For those who have but one yard of bees,and do not care to handle them more thanis absolutely necessary, and for those whoprefer to let their bees swarm naturally, Iknow of no better way than to hive earlyswarms into hives filled with dry combs,and, after eight or ten days, run the newswarms into those that swarmed first. Inthis way se
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