. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 372 November, 1913. \ American Bee Joarnal without even a starter in them, the rest of the hive being empty. Take A from its stand and set B in its place. If supers were on A. put them now on B, and put tlie cover over all. On top of this set A with its bottom-board, so there will be no communication be- tween the two hives, and put the caged queen in A. -> t-, c ,j Now what will happen? Ihe held bees will leave A for the fields just as if no change had been made, and when they come back they will enter the sanie//«cf they have always entered, only
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 372 November, 1913. \ American Bee Joarnal without even a starter in them, the rest of the hive being empty. Take A from its stand and set B in its place. If supers were on A. put them now on B, and put tlie cover over all. On top of this set A with its bottom-board, so there will be no communication be- tween the two hives, and put the caged queen in A. -> t-, c ,j Now what will happen? Ihe held bees will leave A for the fields just as if no change had been made, and when they come back they will enter the sanie//«cf they have always entered, only they will enter a different /iive, for'they will now enter B. leaving A without any field bees. After the queen has started laying nicely in A, perhaps 4 to 6 days after the hive was put up, A may again be put back in its old place. The queen being now surrounded by a strong force of friendly bees will not likely be disturbed by the returning field bees. BvR Western m Bee-Keeping Conducted by Wesley Foster, iioulder. Colo. A Visit to M. W. Harvey Early in August I visited one of the apiaries of Mr. M. W. Harvey, of Mon- trose. He was at work, and his auto- mobile stood beside the honey house covered with a canvas. This is char- acteristic of Mr. Harvey. Everything he has is well cared for. The apiary contains about \W colonies, and is a model of neatness. One trouble Mr. Harvey was having along with nearly all the' other Colorado bee men during August, the bees were swarming, and nothing would retard them seemingly. Mr. Harvey said that seven out of every ten colonies were preparing to swarm. But he was pretty well pre- pared for the emergency, for he had a number of extra hives, full depth, and nearly full of honey. When he came to a hive that had queen cells well along, so that there was little chance that they would give up swarming, he would shake the swarm, or a good pro- portion of them, into one of these ex- tra hives of honey, and put the supers from the old colony on
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