. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. uestion-Bgx". Send Questions either to the cilice of the American bee Journal, or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. ^^ Dr. Miller does not answer Questions by mail. Prevention of Swarming-Getting Most Surplus Honey 1. How would .vou prevent swarming? I have 15 colonies and they do nothing but swarm. I give them supers with starters, and they will go up and till 2 or 3 sections and then swarm. One of my colonies swarmed 4 times in a week and a half. What would you do to stop them from swarming? 2. And what kind of hive would you advise me to use?
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. uestion-Bgx". Send Questions either to the cilice of the American bee Journal, or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. ^^ Dr. Miller does not answer Questions by mail. Prevention of Swarming-Getting Most Surplus Honey 1. How would .vou prevent swarming? I have 15 colonies and they do nothing but swarm. I give them supers with starters, and they will go up and till 2 or 3 sections and then swarm. One of my colonies swarmed 4 times in a week and a half. What would you do to stop them from swarming? 2. And what kind of hive would you advise me to use? 3. How can I get the most surplus honey? Minnesota. Answers.—1. It is not an easy thing to prevent a first or prime swarm. Perhaps what will suit you as well as any way is to allow the first swarm to issue, and then pre- vent atterswarms in the following way : Set the swarm on the ^tand of the mother colony, putting the old hive close up beside it, both hives facing in the same direction. A week later move the old hive to some new place 6 feet or more away. That's all; the bees will do the rest, and you are not likely to have any further swarming from a colony thus treated. 2. The best thing is a hive with movable frames, and it matters little how simple. For success does not so much depend upon the hive as it does upon the man and the pastur- age. Perhaps as good as any for you is the plain lO-frarae hive that you will find listed in the catalogs under the name of " 10-frame dovetailed ; 3. That's a thing that can not be told in a few words. The main object of every number of this publication is to help toward getting more honey, and the bee-books are all for the same purpose. So you can hardly expect me to tell in a few lines what occupies hundreds of pages. It will do no harm, however, to say that the chief thing on your part is to do all you can to get all colonies strong enough for the harvest, and to keep them. Please note that these images are extracted
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