. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tmm HiM^MicMH mmn jouMifMir. 397 ,^^^^^^^^.j^^^^.^^^^.~j^~~.^^-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^i.^A^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^» Honey vs. Iucrease> A large increase in colonies, and a large amount of surplus cannot be secured at one and the same time. It is best to secure all the choice honey possible, and if increase is desired, make it afterwards. Choice queen- cells should be saved during swarm- ing time, and the young queens reared can be used in making colonies after the flow of honej' is past. Italian bees often swarm even before starting queen-cells, and t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tmm HiM^MicMH mmn jouMifMir. 397 ,^^^^^^^^.j^^^^.^^^^.~j^~~.^^-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^i.^A^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^» Honey vs. Iucrease> A large increase in colonies, and a large amount of surplus cannot be secured at one and the same time. It is best to secure all the choice honey possible, and if increase is desired, make it afterwards. Choice queen- cells should be saved during swarm- ing time, and the young queens reared can be used in making colonies after the flow of honej' is past. Italian bees often swarm even before starting queen-cells, and then the old colony builds and rears queens. It is good management to save all the cells built in a choice colony, so as to have good, vigorous queens, to introduce wherever inferior stock is discovered. Before any of the queens emerge, the colony can be divided up ; a frame containing a queen-cell, and covered with bees, can be removed to a hive, and confined to one side by a division- board. If there is not enough honey in this frame, another one containing honey should be given it. When the young queen is out, it is well to add a frame of eggs and larvse. This will furnish employment for the bees, and, if the queen is lost on her bridal tour, furnish the moans of rearing another. Where increase is the object sought, the after-swarms can all be hived and built up into strong colonies before cold weather. Of course these all con- tain young queens, and the old one leaves with the first swarm. Hlvlug Swarms. Many complain of their swarms de- serting the hives. Whenever this is the case, there is some cause for it; either the hive is unclean, or has some disagreeable odor about. I once had a swarm come out of a hive and clus- ter several times. On examining the hive I discovered that it was , a new orke, and that the entrance was too small ; the bees were simply too warm, and for fear of suflbcating, deserted the hive. On putting them in a hive with a wider entrance, they went t
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