. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1915. American Bee Jonrnal j ting sugar and water in empty combs, then the robbers got busy and helped eat it up in spite of the fact that I closed the entrance so only one bee could get in and out. In about 10 days I found all my queen-cells empty and only one queen. What became of the others I haven't an idea. " Is it a good idea to take three brood-frames with no queen-cells and depend upon them to start cells and rear a queen ? Did I make a mistake by waiting until the honey-flow was over to make these swarms ? Those I started are ab
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1915. American Bee Jonrnal j ting sugar and water in empty combs, then the robbers got busy and helped eat it up in spite of the fact that I closed the entrance so only one bee could get in and out. In about 10 days I found all my queen-cells empty and only one queen. What became of the others I haven't an idea. " Is it a good idea to take three brood-frames with no queen-cells and depend upon them to start cells and rear a queen ? Did I make a mistake by waiting until the honey-flow was over to make these swarms ? Those I started are about all dead. I want to know how to make increase, as that is what I want. I had two natural swarms, and they are doing ; Sparta, Ga. J. H. Archer. It is not necessary to wire shallow extracting frames, but it is best to use full sheets of foundation, fastening it well to the top-bars. No, it is not advisable to adopt the lO-f rame hive ; for the average location in the South, and to change from the 8 to the 10-frame hive would be far less advisable. Your non-producing colonies may need requeening or better stock intro- duced. Your plan of making increase was good if you carried the queen with half of the colony you put on the new stand; otherwise it would naturally be unsuccessful. Your failure was due to making increase at the wrong time, for there was no honey or pollen com- ing in and the queens had almost stopped laying. Feeding done at such times would not bring about much bet- ter conditions. If you had done this a week before the honey-flow ceased no doubt you would have been more suc- cessful. On account of the very poor condi- tion of your bees the queen-cells were torn down before the yonng queens emerged, and if any did emerge under such conditions they would naturally disappear. If you would take the old queen with three frames of brood, some honey, and about half the old bees to the new loca- tion, the remaining half at the old stand would rear a queen,
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