. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 566 AMERICAN BEE Utilizing Brood-Combs when Producing Comb Honey. Query 842.— What is the best plan to make use of a lot of nice brood-combs, should I wish to work my bees for comb honey, allowing each colony to swarm once ?—Iowa. Hive the swarm on them.—M. Mahin. Hive the swarm on them.—C. C. Miller. Use them to hive your swarms on.— Mrs. J. N. Heater. Use the brood-combs to hive the swarm upon.—Dadant & Son. Fill the lower hive of the new swarm with combs.—Mrs. L. Harrison. I should hive the swarms on those combs, if they were mine.—G.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 566 AMERICAN BEE Utilizing Brood-Combs when Producing Comb Honey. Query 842.— What is the best plan to make use of a lot of nice brood-combs, should I wish to work my bees for comb honey, allowing each colony to swarm once ?—Iowa. Hive the swarm on them.—M. Mahin. Hive the swarm on them.—C. C. Miller. Use them to hive your swarms on.— Mrs. J. N. Heater. Use the brood-combs to hive the swarm upon.—Dadant & Son. Fill the lower hive of the new swarm with combs.—Mrs. L. Harrison. I should hive the swarms on those combs, if they were mine.—G. M. Doo- LITTLE. I use them to hive my swarms on. In this way they are very profitable in my apiary.—G. W. Demaree. Give the combs to the new swarms, and put the supers on at once, when the bees are hived.—E. France. I should use them to build up weak colonies in the spring, and to give to early swarms.—J. P. H. Brown. Use them for the swarms, but restrict each swarm to combs equal to five Langstroth frames.—R. L. Taylor. I cannot say what the best plan would be for you to follow, but you can use them in many ways, with the best of success.—H. D. Cutting. I don't think I quite get the point. If I had a " nice lot of brood-combs " I should use them in preference to founda- tion or empty frames.—J. E. Pond. Use them for the new swarms, and add sections so as to prevent further swarming. Kill old queens if necessary to do this. It is a nice work,—A. J. Cook. Hive the swarms on the old combs, at the same time setting over the surplus at the time on the old colony, and if receptacles are pretty full, put on more surplus room at the time. I have prac- ticed this for 20 years.—James Heddon. If I used a large brood-chamber I would melt up such combs if I did not want to use them for extracting pur- poses. With a small, shallow brood- chamber—such as I use—nice, empty brood-combs are very valuable in hiving swarms, where a queen-excluder is
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