. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. from each one of tliem. This may not be a great achievement, nevertheless I consider the 28 sections clear gain, the result of uniting the two. If left sepa- rate, neither was strong enough to work in sections, but combined under one sec- tion super, they were in practically the same condition as a populous, full-sized colony. When weak colonies are united to fit them for winter, which is generally done later in the season, it may be done in the same way as for storing surplus, except, that the division-board should. Before Unitino. 28 sections of nea
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. from each one of tliem. This may not be a great achievement, nevertheless I consider the 28 sections clear gain, the result of uniting the two. If left sepa- rate, neither was strong enough to work in sections, but combined under one sec- tion super, they were in practically the same condition as a populous, full-sized colony. When weak colonies are united to fit them for winter, which is generally done later in the season, it may be done in the same way as for storing surplus, except, that the division-board should. Before Unitino. 28 sections of nearly all finished clover honey. They were so crowded that I decided to divide them again, filling out their hives with empty combs, and when the honey season closed, I extracted a set of extracting combs. Jumbo size. After Uniting. be removed before winter sets in, the combs, liees and all, slipped together, and the division-board used to fill out the vacancy on one side or the other. If we have no choice between the queens, we need not worry over their affairs—they will settle that among themselves, otherwise we have to re- move the one we wish to discard. In regard to drone-comb in extracting- supers, I emphatically agree with the editorial referred to. My advice is. "don't use ; It is a waste of precious space, and misleads the bees. My ex- perience of many years has taught me that bees are always slow to accept drone-combs for storage in extracting supers, but this year (1908) they out- did themselves—they actually refused to use it, I extracted some combs that were all-worker comb except now and then a little patch of drone-comb. The former was filled and capped to the last cell, while the latter was empty to the last cell, but every cell was liright and polished, showing that the bees expect- ed to have the queen stock them up with eggs. In this, however, their expecta- tions were blasted by reason of the excluder. .\mong my supply of extracting combs 1 ha
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