. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE DUDLEY TUBE. this crack of the right size, a drop of solder might be attached at ends and middle. Wax or paint and sand the tubes inside. Doubtless the machine hinted at, in the December '06 Review, by C. W. Dayton, would form these tubes more rapidly and do a much better job. Per- haps Mr. Dayton will describe and illus-. HOW THE TUBE IS USED. With a supply of these fixtures we go into one of our comb honey yards. Here is a strong colony which we will treat on the new plan. We find the queen, put her with the frame of brood on which she IS found, (a
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE DUDLEY TUBE. this crack of the right size, a drop of solder might be attached at ends and middle. Wax or paint and sand the tubes inside. Doubtless the machine hinted at, in the December '06 Review, by C. W. Dayton, would form these tubes more rapidly and do a much better job. Per- haps Mr. Dayton will describe and illus-. HOW THE TUBE IS USED. With a supply of these fixtures we go into one of our comb honey yards. Here is a strong colony which we will treat on the new plan. We find the queen, put her with the frame of brood on which she IS found, (after destroying any queen-cells that may be on this frame) into a new hive-body. Fill out this new hive body by putting on each outside, a frame of honey and pollen; then five frames with starters or full sheets of foundation in the remaining space. Usually we have used starters, but during 1906 we used mostly full sheets of foundation—had to, to get worker combs. At this stage of the pro- cess Mr. Dudley uses three thick dum- mies, one frame of brood bees, and queen, and four frames with starters, and has been very successful in getting worker comb, so 1 think his plan of temporary contraction with these tube swarms worthy of trial. Into an outside comb of the old brood-nest we pour some water, und instead of replacing its lid we use a bottom-board for a lid. On this bottom- board we set the new brood-nest prepared as above, the bottom-board of the new hive forming a bee-tight lid to the old brood-nest. Now nail over the old en- trance the double entrance block with the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original National Bee-keepers' Association. [Flint, Mich. : s. n.
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