Gleanings in bee culture . a littlebefore, we place the division board in the backgroove, see cut. INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT OF FRIEND BOOPS HIVE. By the way, the side-boards to the brood-nest have?8-inch grooves cut the same depth that the side-boards are rabbited, to receive the brood-frames—thus not only contracting the space bee-tight butair-tight, by the use of the division board. Removeall surplus frames and boxes from the side and rearcompartments; shake the bees in front, and theywill crowd themselves on to the 8 frames left, whichshould contain at least 25 lbs. of good sealed
Gleanings in bee culture . a littlebefore, we place the division board in the backgroove, see cut. INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT OF FRIEND BOOPS HIVE. By the way, the side-boards to the brood-nest have?8-inch grooves cut the same depth that the side-boards are rabbited, to receive the brood-frames—thus not only contracting the space bee-tight butair-tight, by the use of the division board. Removeall surplus frames and boxes from the side and rearcompartments; shake the bees in front, and theywill crowd themselves on to the 8 frames left, whichshould contain at least 25 lbs. of good sealed the chaff cushion on top the frames, and fillall outer compartments with dry sawdust packedtight; leave them on the summer stand. If jou findany weak in the spring, which Is seldom the case,crowd them on to two combs with the divisionboard, and see if they do not outstrip three timestheir number on two standard L. frames. Twocombs of brood and bees may be taken from thisbive every 10 days throughout the entire honey sea-. son, without perceptibly affecting the working forceof the hive. A two-frame, nuclei on two of theseframes is in better shape to defend themselves thanon two L. frames, and will do us a better job ofqueen-rearing than twice their number could do ontwo standard L. frames. To increase bees with thishive, close all the entrances to the side compart-ments by means of tin or wooden slips; drop the di-vision board in the forward groove, and set up onestrong two-comb nuclei in each of the 6 compart-ments. After each of the queens have been layingabout one week, sell 5 of them, always reserving theone in the main brood-nest forward of the divisionboard. Open all passages and allow the bees tocommunicate with each other overnight; then placeall together in the main brood department, and youhave a strong colony ready for the sections. It willbe seen, by opening 10 hives, that we can examinethe condition ol 60 nuclei, and a safer way of rearingqueens and having them fe
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