. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The Bantam '«mfcll. One oufltomer writes he ob- i 61 ehlcke (r„m 61) eK"- The time. Ctt&ti^ue proves 11—eentfree. Buckeye Incubator t'; 'Box, as, Sprlugflcld, O. Please mention Bee Journal wlien writing. April ti orS; havint:; plenty of comb houoy, I gave them all they needed, and blanketed them well to maintain the heat by manipulat- ing the brood in the brood-nest, and putting another hive on the top tilled with comb, and a (|ueen-excluder between; likewise at limes lifling up from below frames of brood to top of hive, they became ex
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The Bantam '«mfcll. One oufltomer writes he ob- i 61 ehlcke (r„m 61) eK"- The time. Ctt&ti^ue proves 11—eentfree. Buckeye Incubator t'; 'Box, as, Sprlugflcld, O. Please mention Bee Journal wlien writing. April ti orS; havint:; plenty of comb houoy, I gave them all they needed, and blanketed them well to maintain the heat by manipulat- ing the brood in the brood-nest, and putting another hive on the top tilled with comb, and a (|ueen-excluder between; likewise at limes lifling up from below frames of brood to top of hive, they became extra strong in bees. The next move was to divide the col- ony in two. Placing an empty hive a little to one side of the old hive, then opening the hive and searching for the queen, placing the frames she was on in the new hive, then :.' more frames with brood and bees, tilling the rest of the space with empty worker-combs taken from the upper hive and a frame with honey. Next I moved the mother hive (J or s inches to the other side, got all the brood gath- ered to the center, and tilled up with the rest of the empty worker-comb. They soon equal- ized in number of bees nicely. I had sent for a select queen, but being long in coming they had commenced and built queen-cells; I was sure they would kill the new queen, but I cut all the cells out in the morning and after sundown I gave them a good smoking, and in about a half an hour I placed my new queen (in cage) in the center of the brood-frames, just moving the frames apart a little, so I could get the cage dropped in. 1 tied a cord to the cage so it did not drop too far, and closed up the hive. In about 30 hours I opened it and found the queen out, moving around quietly, and the bees seemed to be well pleased as I was. I soon had 2 strong colonies ready for top supers again, and the honey-flow at hand. I bought in all 4 queens, and used them in lite manner, and to get some honey and keep them from swarming I keep the ex- tra
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