. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BI'I-: JOURNAL 29 III frame is safer for you. However, if you use the same frame in eacii, it will be easy for you to try both kinds before you fully settle the question. 2. A strong swarm that issues when bees first becin to swarm should give you a fair yield of honey; yet if there is not too much difference in price you will be better off with a colony that has wintered over. It would give you increase and honey, while the swarm would give you only honey. Queen Excluder- Section Folder- Brood -American Foul- 1. Which is the best queen
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BI'I-: JOURNAL 29 III frame is safer for you. However, if you use the same frame in eacii, it will be easy for you to try both kinds before you fully settle the question. 2. A strong swarm that issues when bees first becin to swarm should give you a fair yield of honey; yet if there is not too much difference in price you will be better off with a colony that has wintered over. It would give you increase and honey, while the swarm would give you only honey. Queen Excluder- Section Folder- Brood -American Foul- 1. Which is the best queen excluder ? 2. Is there a better and quicker section folder than the Friedman Greiner ? 3. I saw a statement that about loo percent more comb honey is stored, when combs are already built, as when bees have to build them. 4. How is the Hassinger way. in the Ameri- can Bee Journal for 1016, pages 164 and 166. and are the beeswax scales better for comb honey, or is it likely to be all drone-comb ? 5. Can American foulbrood be cured by a healthy queen and a healthy 2o-days old brood, taking away the sick colonies at noon and putting the queen above a wire-screen for a day with the healthy brood, then let- ting them unite the second day. This would save the shaking plan. Put the diseased colony over another diseased colony by the N. E. France plan. There is less work, no loss in bees, honey, comber beeswax, I have not fully tried the hospital plan, but think It will work. California. Answers.—I. I have had no experience with the wire excluders; but being smooth they may be better than excluders of per- forated zinc, provided they are perfect in construction. 2. So many different section folders have been offered that I cannot say. 3. While some claim that bees will store 100 percent more in drawn combs than in foundation, not more than 50 percent is gen- erally claimed. Much depends uton cir- cumstances; in some cases, in a very poor flow, and with a weak colony, the gain might be
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