. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 110 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW They are built quicker, and are stronger. You would lose money in attempting to rear queens early enough in the season to make increase as I did last spring. Bet- ter get them from the South. I doubt if the queen would go up into an upper story furnished only with foun- dation. If honey is coming in, the foun- dation is soon drawn into combs, but queens don"t like these new combs so well as they do old combs. If you had the thousands, daily. Another thing: AH the surplus better be stored on the old stand by the neA^ly for
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 110 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW They are built quicker, and are stronger. You would lose money in attempting to rear queens early enough in the season to make increase as I did last spring. Bet- ter get them from the South. I doubt if the queen would go up into an upper story furnished only with foun- dation. If honey is coming in, the foun- dation is soon drawn into combs, but queens don"t like these new combs so well as they do old combs. If you had the thousands, daily. Another thing: AH the surplus better be stored on the old stand by the neA^ly formed colony, and it must be given all the bees possible at the outset, and then nourished or strength - ened, by giving bees from the old hive as they hatch and become old enough to fly. I would introdu:e an Italian queen to the old colony, as suggests d by Mr. Swanson, after driving out the lorced. Putting Sphnts into Foundation. some sets of ^Id combs to put on as supers, the queens would soon go up and occupy them. If compelled to use foun- dation, I see no better way than to driye (drum) the queen and most of the bees into the upper story filled with founda- tion, leaving this drummed out swarm on the old stand. Don't put it on a new stand. Some of the bees would return to the old stand, and the flying bees that are out in the fields would be lost to this new swarm. Remember, this newly estab- lished colony has no brood, and will have no bees hatching for three weeks, while, in the old colony bees will be hatching by swarm, also one to the forced swarm as soon as I could get around and find the old black queen. After making the forced swarm, and placing it upon the old stand, I would set the old hive by the side of it, with its en- trance turned away at an angle of about 80 degrees. Gradually every day or two, for a week or ten days, 1 would turn the eld hive toward the new until the two hives stood parallel, close together, when 1 would pick up the old hive and set it upon
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