. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. September, 1910. American l^ee Journal ily were obliged to dwell in similar insani tary conditions. Tliey are sick from foul air! And that's not all, the queen is pack- ine up and Betting ready for a trip to the health resort. To live and keep her health she must look about for relief, and she finds it only through swarming. I have had them so sick and disgusted with conditions that they would "pull out" without even making any preparations iqueen-cells). How do you expect to have healthy queens and do as you do ? Every so often you go and u
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. September, 1910. American l^ee Journal ily were obliged to dwell in similar insani tary conditions. Tliey are sick from foul air! And that's not all, the queen is pack- ine up and Betting ready for a trip to the health resort. To live and keep her health she must look about for relief, and she finds it only through swarming. I have had them so sick and disgusted with conditions that they would "pull out" without even making any preparations iqueen-cells). How do you expect to have healthy queens and do as you do ? Every so often you go and unpack her baggage, which the bees have put up in good faith that mother might have a change. Then the bees are not so bad off, for they can go out and in as they choose, but .t/;c must remain with the condi- tion. You remove the queen-cells, and by so doing keep her at home. Take two i-frame observation hives; select 2 equally good queens; along with each queen place an equal amount of bees; place one of these in each hive—one you stint with air. and she soon makes preparation for swarming; the otiier one give all the air she requires, and she stays with that single comb all summer. So then don't talk room for brood, to me. It looks queer when the 10-frame colonies all swarm and the 8 frame ones do not, when all are opened wide at each end of the bottom- board just alike. There's the condition that no bottom ventilation reaches, but zigzag the supers and out goes your gas, and the bees stay at home. Always two ways to skin a cat. I do not zigzag, nor do I care to. Learn the cause and then hunt the relief. What happens after removingquecn-cells? After a while her needed trips to a health resort which you stopped has got her quite sick; in fact, has become chronic with her. and after a while may be it's foul brood. You call the doctor (inspector); he recom- mends the removal of all old work, and to put 'em on the health-resort treatment for a cure. You remove the cause, and may
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