Gleanings in bee culture . siderable thin jelly. A queen raisedin the natural way could not have better care. I thought I would improve on this box alittle, but havent done so yet. I thought tomake this swarm-box a permanent affair, soas to save the work of loading it with beesevery time I wanted some cells. I filled itwith bees as usual, and made a flight-hole,and thought in this way I could keep themaccepting cells all the time. I grafted onerow, and then looked at the first cell. Theyhad eaten up the larva and drank its broth;the next the same, and so on all down therow. I found they were w
Gleanings in bee culture . siderable thin jelly. A queen raisedin the natural way could not have better care. I thought I would improve on this box alittle, but havent done so yet. I thought tomake this swarm-box a permanent affair, soas to save the work of loading it with beesevery time I wanted some cells. I filled itwith bees as usual, and made a flight-hole,and thought in this way I could keep themaccepting cells all the time. I grafted onerow, and then looked at the first cell. Theyhad eaten up the larva and drank its broth;the next the same, and so on all down therow. I found they were within three cellsof being caught up with me. I started afreshto graft some more, but they just wouldntallow that graft to be worked on them. Weplayed tag three times around the box, thebees eating up the larvie as fast as I coulddish them out, till I got tired and would notplay any more. Strange why they will ac-cept cells so much better when they are shutin and are frantic to get out. 548 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Apr. 15. HOAV TO DISPOSE OP NEW SWARMSAND THUS CONTROL UNDESIR-ABLE INCREASE. How the Plan on Page 1058 may be Fol-lowed when the Hives are inHoiise-apiaries. BY E. W. ALEXANDER. [As some of our readers may not have handy ourAugust 15th issue of last year, containing the articleto which our correspondent refers on page 1058. in thesubjoined, we will state that the plan is one that al-lows the first swarm to issue, which swarm is finallyreunited with the parent colony in such a way thatthere will be no further swarming, the two forcesworking together unitedly as one colony to produce acrop of honey. The plan is, in brief, as follows: When the swarm comes forth it is hived on framesof foundation. The hive containing it is then placedon top of the parent colony, but with the entrance inthe opposite direction. On the evening of the fourthday the newly hived swarm with its partly drawncomb is lifted off and set to one side parent, colony is now opened up.
Size: 2563px × 975px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectbees, bookyear1874
