. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fur the American Bee Journal. My Plan for Dividing Bees. L. II. PAMMEL. Why is so little written about divid- ing bees ? Is it not beneficial for the bee-keeper to divide his bees in order to save time, secure uniform colonies, and increase to his liking? I have prac- ticed dividing bees for the last 3 years, and I have reaped large harvests of honey and a great increase of colonies. In the spring of 1877 I had 4 colonies of Italians, and in the fall had 16, good ones, with some surplus honey. I must certainly give credit to the good season we had tha
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fur the American Bee Journal. My Plan for Dividing Bees. L. II. PAMMEL. Why is so little written about divid- ing bees ? Is it not beneficial for the bee-keeper to divide his bees in order to save time, secure uniform colonies, and increase to his liking? I have prac- ticed dividing bees for the last 3 years, and I have reaped large harvests of honey and a great increase of colonies. In the spring of 1877 I had 4 colonies of Italians, and in the fall had 16, good ones, with some surplus honey. I must certainly give credit to the good season we had that year for honey. I have used several methods in divid- ing bees. I will give a short descrip- tion of my best method : In order to di- vide, the day should be a warm one, af- ter the white clover harvest has com- menced ; then about noon, when the bees are mostly flying, take a hive of the same color as the one you wish to divide, which must be removed to some other part of the apiary, and the new <»ne put in its place. Take 6 frames of brood and honey from the old colony and place it in the new hive, giving the former 6 empty frames or frames filled with comb foundation. The latter will keep the young bees and queen at work.) Fill the re- mainder of the new hive up with empty iomb, and when the bees of the oldcol- )ny return home laden with pollen and loney, they will find a place to store it. If you have no young queen to give hem, place queen cells in the new hive md the bees in the new colony will be- iome active and diligent workers. I divided a colony last year, and as 1 md not a^oung queen in my apiary I vas obliged to use queen cells, and the esult was that it was the best colony p the apiary in the fall. I believe it to be 'etter to use a young mated queen, if it an be had, but if you put in queen cells ou will have better colonies than by atural swarming. Dividing bees, which was given to s by Dr. Dzierzon, constitutes a part f the science of bee-keeping. Turn ie
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