. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. August, 1910. American ^ae Journal through a bee-escape, and there is so much to commend it that the entire passage from the Bee-Keepers' Review is here given: For several years we have been in the habit of stopping up our honey-liouse bee- escapes during extracting time, then open- ing them after getting through, ttius allowing the bees that were carried in to escape. This worked well as far as the extracting time was concerned, but if there was a par- ticle of a chance for robbers to get into the honey-house, this practiceseemed toencour- age it. It
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. August, 1910. American ^ae Journal through a bee-escape, and there is so much to commend it that the entire passage from the Bee-Keepers' Review is here given: For several years we have been in the habit of stopping up our honey-liouse bee- escapes during extracting time, then open- ing them after getting through, ttius allowing the bees that were carried in to escape. This worked well as far as the extracting time was concerned, but if there was a par- ticle of a chance for robbers to get into the honey-house, this practiceseemed toencour- age it. It was noticed that while no robbers would seem to get into the extracting-house during the extracting, soon after the es- capes were opened, and bees had gone home loaded with honey, a terrible "to-do" would soon be on; and if there was a particle of a chance, robbers would find their way into the house. Sometimes the loss of mature bees by en- tering the honey-house for "stolen ; after extracting was over, would be more than all we had carried in on the combs. Knowing this, no bees are allowed to escape from the honey-house of their own volition, but. each night, or. betterstill, when through extracting at a yard, and the bees are clus- tered near each window, as at swarming time, the cluster is given a little smoke, then, with the Coggshall brush, the cluster is loosened and allowed to drop into a tin pail, or other receptacle, in which they are carried out into the yard and emptied near some colony weak in bees. Handled this way, the beesgo home loaded with honey, but know nothing about where they got it. This is so late in the day that robbers will not work. and. by morning, things have quieted down to such an extent that extracting may go on without any inter- fering from robbers. While the plan of car- rying out the bees each night will work very well, usually. I recommend the leaving of the bees in the extracting-house until through extracting,
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