Gleanings in bee culture . r ex-tracted honey was from 140 to 150 lbs.; andtaking the medium, 145 lbs., as a fair esti-mate, it brings the income of these coloniesto $ each; and, with the product of thecomb-honey divisions added, to $,spring count. This yield of the past season has no prec-edent in my forty years of it is not all due to the season. It is theresult of combining season and manage-ment. The method which I have adoptedand successfully practiced during the lastfour or five years gives me, besides unusual-ly heavy yields, other advantages that helpto reduce
Gleanings in bee culture . r ex-tracted honey was from 140 to 150 lbs.; andtaking the medium, 145 lbs., as a fair esti-mate, it brings the income of these coloniesto $ each; and, with the product of thecomb-honey divisions added, to $,spring count. This yield of the past season has no prec-edent in my forty years of it is not all due to the season. It is theresult of combining season and manage-ment. The method which I have adoptedand successfully practiced during the lastfour or five years gives me, besides unusual-ly heavy yields, other advantages that helpto reduce the unpleasant work of the bee-yard in a great measure. First in this linestands practically perfect swarm comb - honey - producing beekeeperknows by experience the deplorable sightthat meets ones eyes when a colony sendsout a swarm that has two or three superswell under way on their hive. This doesnot happen to me except in very rare of my eomb-honey-producing colonies 312 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. All the supers had been removed from the hives (G. C. Gieiners apiary). swarmed this summer, and only one of thedivisions run for extracted honey swarmednormally during the white-clover in the season I had five supersedingswarms from the same divisions — thosewith old queens and flying bees. Two wentback of their own accord, and the others Ireturned to their home by taking theirqueens away when being clustered on smalltrees or berry-bushes. As my method insures me this much-de-sired swarm control I liave no queens toclip; no queen-cells to hunt and destroy, noshaking off or running after young swarms—nothing of the kind; in fact, I have hard-ly opened a brood-chamber after all colo-nies had received their full equipment ofcombs at the beginning of the white-cloverflow. Instead, I can spend all my timeforcing the production of surplus honey,and my bees are not troubled with swarm-ing notions, but are bent on expending alltheir energy in the sup
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