. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. • -^ ->§ -# -># 39th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY 16, 1899, No, 7,. No. 4. -The " Golden " Method of Producing- Comb Honey Described. BY J. A. GOLDEN. [Continued from pag-e 66.] FIRST, then, is a properU' constructed hive, either a new- hive or a remodeled one, as previously described. Second, a normal colony of bees. Third, a g'ood queen, and her wing's dipt. Fourth, when your colony casts a swarm pick up the dipt queen and let her run in the cage, as previously noted. Fifth, remove the parent hive from its stand and place the two pr
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. • -^ ->§ -# -># 39th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY 16, 1899, No, 7,. No. 4. -The " Golden " Method of Producing- Comb Honey Described. BY J. A. GOLDEN. [Continued from pag-e 66.] FIRST, then, is a properU' constructed hive, either a new- hive or a remodeled one, as previously described. Second, a normal colony of bees. Third, a g'ood queen, and her wing's dipt. Fourth, when your colony casts a swarm pick up the dipt queen and let her run in the cage, as previously noted. Fifth, remove the parent hive from its stand and place the two prepared supers with sections on the stand, then re- move one of the sections from one of the middle rows of the top super, and insert the caged queen, setting the parent hive on top of the two supers. If a super was on the hive at the time of swarming, just leave it on. and return tlie section (taken from super) to the feed receptacle which al- ways remains on top. Now take from the little pocket in the back end of the feed receptacle the slate, and register the age of the queen, and date of swarming, and don't forget, when taking oflf surplus, to register the same. Return the slate, and cover up the hive, by which time the bees will have returned, finding their royal mother occupying new quarters, ample. clean and tidy, and at once commence work. (I will note here that some have reported that the bees re-swarmed after returning the queen, but almost all after- wards reported that the queen-cell or cells had been over- lookt, therefore I advise setting a zinc entrance-guard for two or three days after releasing the queen.) Sixth, on the fifth or sixth da^', in the evening, lift the frames from the hive one by one, and shake or brush tlie bees at the front of the hive, and examine closely, and if you want to return the queen -destro)' every cell and any- thing that looks like a cell, as I have found queen-cells witli just the tip showing above worker-brood, and having the mini
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