. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American ^ae Journal Mar. 28, 1907 clipped, the record is "6—15 s. hived, ; The first two numbers of course are the month and day; the first entry for the colony for that season should be preceded by the year date. I have given you the main reasons why I clip; now I will tell you when. I do this in the spring whenever I can get sight of the queen. In April or Maj' (or whenever in your locality you can safely handle the bees previous to the honey-flow, and before they get very strong) go through every colony and trim ofi bur-combs and
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American ^ae Journal Mar. 28, 1907 clipped, the record is "6—15 s. hived, ; The first two numbers of course are the month and day; the first entry for the colony for that season should be preceded by the year date. I have given you the main reasons why I clip; now I will tell you when. I do this in the spring whenever I can get sight of the queen. In April or Maj' (or whenever in your locality you can safely handle the bees previous to the honey-flow, and before they get very strong) go through every colony and trim ofi bur-combs and otherwise slick up things so that the combs will handle- very freely without catching and scrap- ing. Every bur-comb and brace-comb should be removed, and this done in the early season before there are many bees to be in the way. Now when do- ing this work, watch for the queen, and, when found, if her wing is already clipped enter the fact on the record as "o. ; If the colony record shows two consecutive seasons "o. ; she is ready to be put out of commission after that season's crop of bees for the harvest has been produced, unless she shows un- usual vitality, when she may wait for the third "o. ; but lots of them will not be found for the third one, or, if so, will disgust the owner by failing just when he can least afford to have the failure. But do not hunt too long; if not found with reasonable effort or disturbance wait until the next over- hauling, when the bur-combs being out of the way, and combs handle so slick and easy, you can locate her without trouble. For clipping I carry a little pair of scissors in my vest-pocket; they are about as long as my finger, and, when I locate the queen, out comes those scis- sors, and they follow her until I get a blade under a wing, when off it goes. I don't cut one leg in many hundreds of queens; I thinklhave never clipped but one leg. I never attempt to catch the queen to clip, except in rare
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