. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 4, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 219 might fail if they should swap plans. If time was plenty, and it was decided to take extra precaution, this might be done : At the time of day when bees were busy flying, remove the old queen and set the hive in a new place, after first taking from it a frame of brood and bees to put in another hive on the old stand ; put the new queen in the removed hive and perhaps two days later return to the old place, giving it back its frame of brood. Now it's none of my business, but if you're requeen- ing with young quee
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 4, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 219 might fail if they should swap plans. If time was plenty, and it was decided to take extra precaution, this might be done : At the time of day when bees were busy flying, remove the old queen and set the hive in a new place, after first taking from it a frame of brood and bees to put in another hive on the old stand ; put the new queen in the removed hive and perhaps two days later return to the old place, giving it back its frame of brood. Now it's none of my business, but if you're requeen- ing with young queens to avoid swarming, I'll volunteer the remark that in this locality it doesn't do to make the change too early. -*-«-• Transferrins: Controlling Swarming. I got a start in bees last summer. Can I transfer or increase, and incidentally control swarming, by placing Langstroth hives with starters under or over ho^-hivesl or does the " A B C of Bee-Culture" (which I have) cover the whole ground ? If so. I shall have to follow instructions therein. Indiana. Answer.—If you put a box-hive over a frame-hive hav- ing its frames tilled with foundation, and allow the bees to work down and fill the lower hive, you will probably have, if you wait long enough, all the brood in the lower story, and consequently the colony transferred, and you may con- fidently count on no swarming. With a little more trouble you can have a surer and quicker way. Put on the stand of the box-hive a movable-frame hive filled with foundation, and put over it a queen-excluder. Drum the bees out of the box-hive until you think you have the queen, and run them into the frame-hive. Set the box-hive over the excluder, and close up any opening over the frame-hive or under the box-hive. A week later look to see if you have eggs below, and if not drum again. Three weeks after the queen is drummed out all the brood will be below (unless it be a small amount of worthless drone-brood), and the box-hive may
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