. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. October, 191?. American Hee Journal. Movable-Frame Hive and Native Hive Protected Against the Sun's Rays in Tunis—(See page 205) are not without a large influence where extracted honey is produced. I had enough of these combs, this season, to fill 12 or 15 hive-bodies, and these were, at the beginning of fruit- bloom, put on as many of my strongest colonies with excluders beneath. There is not enough fruit-bloom here to en- able the bees to store much, if any, in these upper stories, and when it is over there is quite a long breeding period before whi
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. October, 191?. American Hee Journal. Movable-Frame Hive and Native Hive Protected Against the Sun's Rays in Tunis—(See page 205) are not without a large influence where extracted honey is produced. I had enough of these combs, this season, to fill 12 or 15 hive-bodies, and these were, at the beginning of fruit- bloom, put on as many of my strongest colonies with excluders beneath. There is not enough fruit-bloom here to en- able the bees to store much, if any, in these upper stories, and when it is over there is quite a long breeding period before white clover blooms. The honey in some of the upper stories was all consumed at the begin- ning of the honey-flow, and in others it was only partially consumed. The up- per stories, with little or no honey in the combs, were left to be filled with honey for extracting. The others were placed below, and the bees of the col- ony shaken in front, and the combs of brood put over weaker colonies and left to be filled with honey for extract- ing as fast as the cells became empty of brood. A comb-honey super was put over each shaken colony. From these shaken colonies I got a large share of my comb honey this season, and from the colonies strength- ened with 1» or lit frames of brood I got the largest part of my extracted honey. As I did not have hives full of combs with honey in them to put over all of my strong colonies at the beginning of friiit-bloom, I put a hive full of empty combs under the rest without using excluders. This was done to retard and prevent swarming, and to give plenty of room. At the beginning of the white-clover flow some of the lower stories had brood in them, and when they were taken away had quite a lot of bees which stayed with the brood and were given either a pur- chased queen or a comb with queen- cells from a colony that had swarmed. There are some reasons, I believe, why the methods described by Mr. Doolittle, in his book, will not be gen- erally adopte
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