. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 115 Sec tliiit all drone (-(Hiil) is i-enioved from the brood chaiuher and worker tomb is put in its place. Don't stand ten minutes for a little ee to net out of the way for fear he ight iict hint. Let some ;s re- jiin a secret to the iminisitive nciiih- )r. A cloth liijhtly saturated with cai-- 30lic acid or iceroseue will hustle ihe jees out of the ^. Bait sections n the supers are a little gold mine to )ee-keepers. Have the honey house at the south ;ide of the yard facing north. You an see the liees muc
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 115 Sec tliiit all drone (-(Hiil) is i-enioved from the brood chaiuher and worker tomb is put in its place. Don't stand ten minutes for a little ee to net out of the way for fear he ight iict hint. Let some ;s re- jiin a secret to the iminisitive nciiih- )r. A cloth liijhtly saturated with cai-- 30lic acid or iceroseue will hustle ihe jees out of the ^. Bait sections n the supers are a little gold mine to )ee-keepers. Have the honey house at the south ;ide of the yard facing north. You an see the liees much more readily. shaken swarm, and after a few days more, anotiicr. When buckwlu>at time ai-rived all the brood had hatched from these combs and the young queen was laying. The hive coutnlned. by this time a large amount of young, \igoio-s Ix'c;, which, when comfined ti) only one brood-chamber iind a sec- tion < use, were ready to begin work at once. I have had veiy good results by ti-eating i)arent colonies in tliis way. Hive .")o!) had been shaken early and had given me 4S sections oif nice white honey. 'I'he third set of sections were not finished when tlie clover season. NOT GILT-EDGED, BUT TRIMMED WITH BUCKWHEAT. 'A GOOD ; Profitable Manipulation of Parent Stocks. By F. Greiner. rHE ACCOMPANYING photo shoiws a part of my apiary at tlie beginning of the buclvwheat >ney season. I want the reader to especially take 'tice of hive No. 7G. It contains a lony which had cast a swarm in the rly ]»art of the season and had been i'ated a la Heddon. Afterwards it re- ived one set of brood combs from a closed. It was left on the hive tO' be finished with buckwheat. This is not generally recommended, but a-s it les- sens the work and the result is just as satisfactory, I am loth to expend un- nei-es,sary labcr removing partly filled su])ers. As the season turned out the partly filled super was completed, but not very much more work was done in the fourth set of
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