. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. RECORD-KEEPING OF HIVES. 378 RECORD-KEEPING OF himself and workmen. It takes too much time to write the wliole liistory of the affair, so it is better to use a system of abbrevi- ations; and, besides, it saves room. In order to econo- mize time in running up to a slate to see what it says, it is desirable to indicate, so far as possible, the last record on the slate by its position on the cover. The accompanying diagram shows
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. RECORD-KEEPING OF HIVES. 378 RECORD-KEEPING OF himself and workmen. It takes too much time to write the wliole liistory of the affair, so it is better to use a system of abbrevi- ations; and, besides, it saves room. In order to econo- mize time in running up to a slate to see what it says, it is desirable to indicate, so far as possible, the last record on the slate by its position on the cover. The accompanying diagram shows a few of the positions that may be used ; and this number may be extended indefinitely by putting the slate cornerwise, endwise, etc., in the different positions sliown. But it is desirable not to have too many, else you or your help will be confused. The code below is one we have used in our apiary, and it is one that can be used in most yards. To make it really valuable, it will be necessary to memorize the meaning of each position. In the diagram given, 10 positions are shown ; and these have been proven by actual practice to answer our re- quirements. To aid the memory we will make use of a simi>le analogy. We liave then we turn the slate parallel with the giain,as shown at 4. If the virgin queen should be lost, the slate is put back as shown in No. 1—across the grain. Let us suppose that our queen is laying, and in a month's time she pioves a purely mated Italian. The condition of the colony has much improved, as regards the value of the queen, so the slate is moved to tlie center of the hive, parallel with the grain. So far the first five positions would cover the time of queen-rearing. Rut suppose we wish to introduce a queen—how shall we in- dicate it V The colony with a caged queen is neither queenless nor is it possessed of a queen, because they may take a notion to kill her as soon as she is released. To carry out the figure, the colony is about half way betw
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