Gleanings in bee culture . , and agood strong colony of bees with plenty ofstores. SMOKE METHOD OF INTRODUCING. Much has been written about introducingqueens. The smoke method has been hitoften and hard; but from my experience ithas seldom if ever failed. I starve thequeen for half an hour, and then introduceby the method advocated by Arthur One day last summer I found a blackqueen in one of my queen-rearing hives inthe backyard. The bees had balled her; andwhen I came to the rescue, there she was, ablack queen. Where she came from I didnot know. On the other side of the divisioiizin
Gleanings in bee culture . , and agood strong colony of bees with plenty ofstores. SMOKE METHOD OF INTRODUCING. Much has been written about introducingqueens. The smoke method has been hitoften and hard; but from my experience ithas seldom if ever failed. I starve thequeen for half an hour, and then introduceby the method advocated by Arthur One day last summer I found a blackqueen in one of my queen-rearing hives inthe backyard. The bees had balled her; andwhen I came to the rescue, there she was, ablack queen. Where she came from I didnot know. On the other side of the divisioiizinc was the queen that belonged to thehive. Another experience I must mention. Tintroduced a queen; and, looking at thenucleus two days later from which she wastaken, there she was, wliere she was before,and laving. The hive to which she had Unfiuislied sectionspacked super. for extra winter stores in a * We liave seen the same thing. Probably notfile wax worm, but (he larvaa of some fly.—Ed. FEBRUARY 15, 1916 FT—-tr 157. A liiaiirli I 1 1 \ I iliern Spy apple-tree covi-iid with luosquito-bar during the blossoming period to keepthe bees away, liieie were 876 blossoms on this one branch. The rest of the tree bore a normal were just five apples on this branch, and three of these dropped before becoming ripe. The bees arenecessary for pollination of the blossoms. been introduced was opened soon after, andno queen could be found. It is reasonableto suiTpose that she came out, or was drag-ged out, and found her way back to hernucleus. There is a man out in the country whohas several box hives of blacks. He sellsprime swarms to me for 50 cents apiece. I furnish hives and frames. He hives is well satisfied, and so am I. Theblacks are requeened with Italians. Hesays there is more money selling primeswarms than raising honey. He says thebox hives are good enough for him, andless trouble. Providence, R. I. AS GLIMPSED THRU THE CAMERA Some Common and Uncommon Sights A
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