. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. i7i> THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Nov. 17, 1904. one frame of brood, bees, and a queen from a strong- colony, from which I intended to make my increase. With this help it built up strong in time for basswood bloom. I devoted 8 colonies to the production of extracted, 1 to comb honey, and the other to increase. I secured 1300 pounds of extracted and 125 pounds of comb honey. For increase I divided the one colony into 4 nuclei, retaining some bees for the old hive. My old queens were all clipped, and all swarms returned to their own hives with but littl
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. i7i> THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Nov. 17, 1904. one frame of brood, bees, and a queen from a strong- colony, from which I intended to make my increase. With this help it built up strong in time for basswood bloom. I devoted 8 colonies to the production of extracted, 1 to comb honey, and the other to increase. I secured 1300 pounds of extracted and 125 pounds of comb honey. For increase I divided the one colony into 4 nuclei, retaining some bees for the old hive. My old queens were all clipped, and all swarms returned to their own hives with but little trouble. The first swarm came out June IS, and by July S the swarming was over ex- cept in the case of the one weak colony. I found the Porter bee-escape quite a help with some colonies, which would nearly all be out of the supers 24 hours after the bee-escape was put in place, while in case of others there would be several thousand bees in the supers 48 hours after placing escapes. My bees were very cross, sometimes literally driving me out of the yard. But after getting a Jumbo Corneil smoker I fared better. My queens live only one year. They are all super- seded at swarming-time, or about the close of the honey-flow. This gives me young queens which fill the hives with bees for winter. I would not be without the American ' Bee Journal. F. L,. Day. Becker Co., Minn., Oct. 29. Good Honey Crop—Hives. I commenced the season with 39 colo- nies, and increased to 70 by natural swarming. I did not get much white clover or basswood honey on account of too much rain and cold nights. But a good flow of fall honey commenced Aug. 8, and lasted till Oct. 22, or till the bloom was completely gone. I had 3 colonies that did not swarm that stored 180 pounds each. I had 3500 sections and 1200 pounds of box. illl^^ltJilili' GREEN BONE and VEGETABLE CUTTER bor, than aoy other. Send fur Special Trial Offer and handsome catalogue. HUMPHREY, KemD SI. Factory, Jollel, Itlft. "Please mentio
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