Gleanings in bee culture . luder over it, and the broodplaced on top. The bees are brushed offthe combs with a Coggshall bee-brush inorder to find the queen. (This is the easierAvay when there is such an army of bees.)The queen is placed in the lower story withthe one frame of brood, and the remainingbrood is placed over the excluder to hatchout. The combs are then store combs. Ifmore supers are needed they are addedunder the brood-combs or directly over theexcluder. Ten days later any queen-cellsthat may have been started are removed; orif increase is desired they are set on a newstand; or an
Gleanings in bee culture . luder over it, and the broodplaced on top. The bees are brushed offthe combs with a Coggshall bee-brush inorder to find the queen. (This is the easierAvay when there is such an army of bees.)The queen is placed in the lower story withthe one frame of brood, and the remainingbrood is placed over the excluder to hatchout. The combs are then store combs. Ifmore supers are needed they are addedunder the brood-combs or directly over theexcluder. Ten days later any queen-cellsthat may have been started are removed; orif increase is desired they are set on a newstand; or an upper entrance is given for thequeens to mate. In this way swarming is entirely con-trolled. The secret is to get the queen tolay in both stories, and so use up any darkhoney that may be left from the precedingseason. As these combs are used for storecomb after the brood hatches, it is desirableto get rid of all dark honey. The drones are also controlled. Beingover the exchider they cannot escape, and OCTOBER 15. 1916 975. Western New York field meeting- at Dysingers Corners, August li are killed by the bees. They fall down onthe excluder, but never plug the openingsby so doing. Plenty of drone comb is placedin desirable colonies to rear the drones tomake sure of having good ones. Mr. Lincoln says that he can manipulate50 colonies a day by the foregoing uses eight frames in a ten-frame super,and extracts at the end of the tlow. Mr. William Vollmer, of Akron, N. ^.,told of bis varied experience in buyingbees in eombless packages from the case of the one-pound package withqueen, he thinks it is advisable to put thebees on empty combs with a frame of brood,if they are received early in May, in orderto make them a remunerative the two-pound package it is also ad-visable to give a frame of brood, but thecombs are not quite so essential. The two-pound package generally makes sufficienthoney the first season to pay for itself; andas far as honey is
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