. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 44 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL February about thirty miles south of Nash- ville. The Spring Hill postofflce and village is located about a mile from the railroad. Strangely enough the railroad has given the station the name "Bwells" instead of calling it by the same name as the post office. This leads to some confusion. The Davis homestead is located between the town and the station so that while living in the country they have all the conveniences of the town right at the door. The father, J. M. Davis rears three banded Italians exclu- sively, whi
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 44 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL February about thirty miles south of Nash- ville. The Spring Hill postofflce and village is located about a mile from the railroad. Strangely enough the railroad has given the station the name "Bwells" instead of calling it by the same name as the post office. This leads to some confusion. The Davis homestead is located between the town and the station so that while living in the country they have all the conveniences of the town right at the door. The father, J. M. Davis rears three banded Italians exclu- sively, while the son. Ben G. Davis con- fines his entire attention to the gold- ens. Ben is unmarried and makes his home with his parents, but his apiary is several miles distant to ?void mixing of the strains of bees. Our first illustration shows a corner of the J. M. Davis yard. At the time of my visit there were about fifteen hundred nuclei in the two yards. The systems followed by father and son differ in several things. J. M. Davis uses four compartment nuclei for, mating purposes as shown in the second illustration, while Ben uses only two divisions for a full colony as shown at Fig. 3. The four com- partment hives have an opening at each side and one at each end to avoid mixing of the bees or danger of the queens entering the wrong com- partment on returning from their mating flight. These compartments are lettered. A, B, C, and D and when manipulating them, it is the habit to begin always at A and follow through the regular system to avoid mistakes. Figure 4, shows a part of the Ben Davis yard. Double the number of hives are necessary to mate the same number of queens by his system that his father requires, w. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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