. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 306 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. May 20, comb under these conditions nearly always build drone-cotub. I now wait four or five days, when I go to the old colony and take out four frames of brood, from which all the bees were shaken, as they were from the last-meutioned franie, when I carry them to the nucleus. I now fill out each hive with empty comb or comb foundation, and put on the surplus arrangement. By the above, each colony is made of about equal strength, and the brood is so taken out of the old hive that the colony does not have a desire to swarm
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 306 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. May 20, comb under these conditions nearly always build drone-cotub. I now wait four or five days, when I go to the old colony and take out four frames of brood, from which all the bees were shaken, as they were from the last-meutioned franie, when I carry them to the nucleus. I now fill out each hive with empty comb or comb foundation, and put on the surplus arrangement. By the above, each colony is made of about equal strength, and the brood is so taken out of the old hive that the colony does not have a desire to swarm. The old colony will have the most field bees for the first week or so, but the other will soon make the stronger colony of the two. My second plan is to make one colony from each old one, on the principle of division of bees instead of division of brood, as in the above case. In using this plan we must have queen-cells nearly mature by the time our first colonies are preparing to swarm. Having such cells on hand, I go to a colony preparing to swarm, or one that has its hive full of bees and brood, and move it one side of the old location, so as to put a new hive in its place. If a hive is not full of brood and bees, do not touch it; for it is useless to try to increase bees till such is the case. cir I now look over the combs till I find the one having the queen on it, when I place that comb in the new hive. I next give them a frame having some honey in it, and then fill out the hive with empty comb or foundation, when about two- thirds of the bees in the old hive are shaken in front of the new hive and allowed to run in. After this I arrange the frames back in the old hive, putting a division-board in place pared hive in its place. Thus I have a laying queen and enough of her own bees to protect her, together with a hive filled with combs of brood, and all the field-bees from the re- moved colony. The loss of bees to the removed colony stops the swarming impulse, and In abou
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