. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Entered at the Postoffice, Fort Pierce, Fla., as second-class mail matter. Vol. XVI JUNE. 1906. No. 6 Swaridi iia4 5vynriiim Infliieiici)s anA ('oa^itiod-s \U\v\i\:>; a Direct %Jpon tl\i3 ShI^ocL—<^^Mosuo(i's An-swerei c. w. MR. V. A. HANSEN, of Wisconsin, asks the following questions re" lating to swarming: Q. How many colonies can you man- age by your plan in one yard? A. Never found the limit. I have had 225 in one yard and each colony swarmed twice. It required about one and a half hours per day. It takes about eight swarm boxes to
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Entered at the Postoffice, Fort Pierce, Fla., as second-class mail matter. Vol. XVI JUNE. 1906. No. 6 Swaridi iia4 5vynriiim Infliieiici)s anA ('oa^itiod-s \U\v\i\:>; a Direct %Jpon tl\i3 ShI^ocL—<^^Mosuo(i's An-swerei c. w. MR. V. A. HANSEN, of Wisconsin, asks the following questions re" lating to swarming: Q. How many colonies can you man- age by your plan in one yard? A. Never found the limit. I have had 225 in one yard and each colony swarmed twice. It required about one and a half hours per day. It takes about eight swarm boxes to the 100 colonies. The more they cluster to- gether the better. Q. How can you keep your colonies queenless after the second swarm is returned? There must be considerable unsealed brood in the hive and thus give the bees a chance to rear a queen. A. The youngest larvae is soppostd to be four days old or seven days from the egg—too old to rear a queen from. If the first swarm was to be delayed a day or two, by weather or other inter- ference, it might cause the second swarm to issue in less than seven days Dayton. after the first swarm issued and then the queen might leave a few eggs and there would be larvae that would not be too old. In the third paragraph there is this sentence which is not thorougnly cor- rect: It says that second swarms are of large size because they include the bees of the first swarm. That expi-es- sion has been stereotyped so often that it was penned without a ripple of thought. It is true in some cases but not always. The size of the first swarm is varied a great deal by the amount of reverence the bees possess for their old queen. A good one more and a poor one less, almost down to nothing. This is governed by her age and her ability to lay eggs for the future prosperity of the colony in the new home. If the queen has not been restricted in her laying she will have reached the height of her cppacity some time previous to the issuance of the swarm. S
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