. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 170 May, 1915. American Vee -Journal )'^^a^^ 1 the outer edges to the center. This shifting can take place only in mild days. That is why we said in " Lang- strofh Revised," page 341: "When all the food in their reach is consumed, they will starve if the temperature is too cold to allow them to move their cluster to the parts of the combs which contain honey; hence //' t/ie central combs of the hive arc not zvell stored ?with honey, /hey should be exchan^'cd for such as are, so thai, when the cold comfels the bees to recede from the out
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 170 May, 1915. American Vee -Journal )'^^a^^ 1 the outer edges to the center. This shifting can take place only in mild days. That is why we said in " Lang- strofh Revised," page 341: "When all the food in their reach is consumed, they will starve if the temperature is too cold to allow them to move their cluster to the parts of the combs which contain honey; hence //' t/ie central combs of the hive arc not zvell stored ?with honey, /hey should be exchan^'cd for such as are, so thai, when the cold comfels the bees to recede from the outer combs, they may cluster among their ; The words in italics are liter ally from page 336 of the third and subsequent editions of Mr. Lang- stroth's original work. A similar thought and advice are to be found on page 323 of his second edition, while the first contains only a mention of the possibility of their "starving in the midst of plenty," on page 104. We would suggest that it is out of the question for the bees to move their cluster when they have any brood at all in the cells. In such cases they can move only the honey, and if able to do so they induce the queen to breed, as so aptly asserted by Mr. Cole. —Editor ] Introducing Queen Mated in tlie Same Yard BY SOUTHWESTERN BEE CO. OUR apiary manager announces that he is mating his queens this spring in 2 frame nuclei. The frames are regular Hoffman brood-frames as used in our brood-nests, and are therefore wholly interchangeable. Whenever he finds a failing queen or a colony not doing satisfactory work he kills the queen and takes out two frames con- taining no brood. He then splits the brood-nest in the middle, making mom for two frames. He now takes the two frames from his nucleus with all the bees attached to them, the more the better, and places the entire nucleus, bees, queen and all in the open space in the dequeened colony. By this rnethod the work of the colony goes right on without any in
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