Gleanings in bee culture . w hive and three new frames inthe old queenless hive. One week from this time I made twomore small colonies from the queenlesspart, giving each part two nice queen course the old hive with the one comb ofbrood was fully as strong as any, as most ofthe field workers were there. Note that thequeen cells were all started where the fieldbees were. There were none in the newhive with the queen. Mr. Fort painted some of his hives green,some white, and some red. Fvery youngqueen mated safely this time, and the fourcolonies were soon strong. On June 26 the hive wher
Gleanings in bee culture . w hive and three new frames inthe old queenless hive. One week from this time I made twomore small colonies from the queenlesspart, giving each part two nice queen course the old hive with the one comb ofbrood was fully as strong as any, as most ofthe field workers were there. Note that thequeen cells were all started where the fieldbees were. There were none in the newhive with the queen. Mr. Fort painted some of his hives green,some white, and some red. Fvery youngqueen mated safely this time, and the fourcolonies were soon strong. On June 26 the hive where the old queenwas located was packed full again. 1 thendivided in the same way I did before, andone week later two more were made. On July 24 the hive containing the oldqueen was full once more, and I divided itthat day; also quite a number of the oldhives; and one week from that time manymore were made. We had now come to apoint where we could go fast, and the yardwas soon full. On August 2S we divided for the last A large swarm lor August. May 1. 1912 We split seven of the strongest coloniesright in two in the middle, as nearly as \vecould. Of course the larger part of thebrood nearest ready to hatch was placed inthe hives on the new stands, with the great-er part of the worker bees. In this case weleft the queens at home on the old course all the old lield workers wouldcome back to the old places, and that wasjust what we wanted, because right here wesafely introduced seven Italian queens ofthe J. P. Moore strain. The last coloniesdivided soon became strong. When we had done dividing we found wehad ol colonies; but the queen of one of thehives was not laying as well as we be-lieved she ought to, and so we killed herand attempted to introduce an Italian queenbut failed. We then united this queenlesscolony with one of the weakest in the yard,which reducetl the number to 30 colonies. Ireally believe that, if we had put youngqueens in the ([ueenless parts as fa
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