. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 100 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Mar. 30,. THOMAS C. NEWMAN. Editob and pbopriethk. CHICAGO, ILL., MAR. 30, 1881. Eepairing Losses by Dividing. I began the last season with 10 colo- nies—8 blacks and 2 Italians—and lost all this winter but the Italians, which are strong and in good condition. I never read a bee book, nor saw the Bee Journal till last fall. Had I subscribed for the Bee Journal a year sooner, it would have saved me $40. I thought I had a good start last summer in the bus- iness with 10 colonies, but now I have only 2. (Ian I build up these
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 100 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Mar. 30,. THOMAS C. NEWMAN. Editob and pbopriethk. CHICAGO, ILL., MAR. 30, 1881. Eepairing Losses by Dividing. I began the last season with 10 colo- nies—8 blacks and 2 Italians—and lost all this winter but the Italians, which are strong and in good condition. I never read a bee book, nor saw the Bee Journal till last fall. Had I subscribed for the Bee Journal a year sooner, it would have saved me $40. I thought I had a good start last summer in the bus- iness with 10 colonies, but now I have only 2. (Ian I build up these two, and ever hope to succeed V Will a good manual help me ? What can I do with 50 or 00 frames of honey on which the bees starved V S. F. Miller. N. Manchester, Ind., March 12, 1881. A seeming misfortune is sometimes a blessing in disguise, and we doubt not, with your spirit of inquiry and the ex- perience of the past winter, you will so prove it. You have every facility for building up, and with the aid of a good manual and the hives and combs of honey left over from the wreck, it will be a work of interest and a profitable experience to replace your losses. Your untenanted hives we suppose to be ex- act duplicates of those now occupied by the Italians ; if not, now is the time to overhaul them, as you should have but one style of hive. As soon as settled weather comes on, when fruit trees are in bloom and the air is redolent with the perfume of spring flowers, you can commence your work of dividing for increase, as follows : Remove your best colony to the stand where a new colony is to remain and place in its stead an empty hive, from the hive removed lift the frame on which you find the queen, and place with the queen in the empty hive on the old stand,now take another frame with sealed brood from the hive removed and place alongside the frame with the queen ; close the remaining frames together in the hive from which the queen was removed, and put one of your old comb
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