. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 703 very convenient to use, cheap and dur- able, and by the use of both the cell-pro- tectors and cages, we can control swarm- ing about as we please, and re-queen the hive at the same time with the best natural cells, and at the' proper season, too, without cost or much trouble. I wrote the following for Gleanings, and now copy it for the American Bee Journal, so that its restders may learn of the uses and advantages of my queen- cell protector : The cell-protector was worth over $100 to me two years ago in swarming time, as I r
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 703 very convenient to use, cheap and dur- able, and by the use of both the cell-pro- tectors and cages, we can control swarm- ing about as we please, and re-queen the hive at the same time with the best natural cells, and at the' proper season, too, without cost or much trouble. I wrote the following for Gleanings, and now copy it for the American Bee Journal, so that its restders may learn of the uses and advantages of my queen- cell protector : The cell-protector was worth over $100 to me two years ago in swarming time, as I re-queened over 100 colonies. COILED WIRE QUEEN-CAGE, WITH A CARTRIDGE SHELL FEEDER. with cells from my choicest ones, and at the same time stopped swarming where the cells were introduced. My bees win- tered well, and came out strong the fol- lowing Spring, while others lost very heavily all around here. I dare not say that it is a positive fact that the method I practiced two years ago will always prevent swarming, but it did with me in four different yards, and it was a swarming year, too. The hives that T did not treat that way nearly all gave swarms, and in many of them I killed the queen while the swarm was on the wing, and 'destroyed the cells in the hive, and gave them a choice queen-cell in the protector, from a hive that had cast a swarm five or six days before. This is easily done while the bees are on the wing. This way of re-queening an apiary costs nothing, and gives a chance of doing it when swarming-cells are plenti- ful, and this is the time to do it, because we can get better queens ; and by going to a hive that has not swarmed, and es- pecially if for any cause the queen is condemned,kill her and destroy the cells, if any are started, and give them a choice cell in the protector at once. If you want queens for this purpose, go to a hive that has cast a swarm five or six days previously, cut out carefully all the cells you wish to save ; place them in the prote
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