. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1^0 May, 1013. American ~Bae Jonrnal them, if I can lind some way to do it. I don't helieve tiiat my bees will swarm to amount to anythine. because the spring is late, and they are late in rearing: young bees, and the prospect for good swarms is not very good. The bees in the dovetailed hives suffered the most. I have only 3 colonies left in the movable-frame hives, the others are in boxes and gums, and I have no way to get at them to do anything with them. I do not believe there are many bees left in this part of the country; one man had 0 colonies a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1^0 May, 1013. American ~Bae Jonrnal them, if I can lind some way to do it. I don't helieve tiiat my bees will swarm to amount to anythine. because the spring is late, and they are late in rearing: young bees, and the prospect for good swarms is not very good. The bees in the dovetailed hives suffered the most. I have only 3 colonies left in the movable-frame hives, the others are in boxes and gums, and I have no way to get at them to do anything with them. I do not believe there are many bees left in this part of the country; one man had 0 colonies and lost all; a neighbor had 2 colo- nies and lost both; another has 3 left. Illinois. .'\nswer. —Having on hand 13 hives tilled with drawn-out combs with some honey in them, you should have no difficulty in in- creasing a colonies to 25 or 30 if the season is at all good, and the prospects in that direc- tion are now good. If you have not already done so. the first thing is to become familiar with the contents of a good text-book on bees, such as "Langstroth on the Honey- Bee.'" I see by your letter that you have also " Doolittle's Queen-Rearing," and that ought to help. Being familiar with general principles, you can then be guided by cir- cumstances as to what is best to do in your particular case. You might divide all your colonies at one time into enough nuclei to make the full number desired. That, however, is hardly so satisfactory as to take the safer plan of starting each nucleus so strong that there will be no danger of ending the season with a number of weaklings unable to winter over. So the first thing is to build up your a colonies strong. When the strongest of them have 5 or 0 frames of brood, then you can draw a frame of brood with adhering bees to help another colony not so strong. Only be sure not to draw so much from a strong colony as to leave it with less than 4 full frames of brood. When all are built up so as to have s or h fra
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