. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. >'i^. No. 'i—" Shoo, dere 1 you pig shtingers I so help me kracious 1 " I kills you all dead, that the book, " Langstroth Revised," gives the best informa- tion I know on the subject. The majority of our leading writers and practical bee- keepers allow their bees to swarm once : they hive the swarm on the old stand, and arrange to have as many of the bees as possible with the swarm, and depend upon the swarm for gathering the surplus they may get. If there is only a few weeks of honey-flow ahead, they contract the brood-nest as
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. >'i^. No. 'i—" Shoo, dere 1 you pig shtingers I so help me kracious 1 " I kills you all dead, that the book, " Langstroth Revised," gives the best informa- tion I know on the subject. The majority of our leading writers and practical bee- keepers allow their bees to swarm once : they hive the swarm on the old stand, and arrange to have as many of the bees as possible with the swarm, and depend upon the swarm for gathering the surplus they may get. If there is only a few weeks of honey-flow ahead, they contract the brood-nest as much as possitsie, so as to get honey instead of brood. Most of them agree, nevertheless, that colonies that do not swarm at all, give better results ; and if they do allow swarming, it is because they cannot prevent it without disturbing the colony, causing the bees to get the swarming-fever, sulking and hang- ing outside of the hive, etc., instead of gathering nectar. Where the honey-flow is long enough, both the colony and the swarm may have time enough to build up and gather more than the non-swarming colony. This is not the case with me. In this locality the non-swarming colony is de- cidedly ahead. ^1^^' ^^\^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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