. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1915. American liee Joarnal and the excluder ? Provided I five ample super room, would that be to prevent ^Tcould'l strengthen two colonies with safety to both queens by putting the weak one over the strong one ,; A/ Alexander w th two Queen-exckKlers between, so as to keep the queens from hEliimg through, hen put a newsparer between at time of "n|l'"i-'. ,, /, Miller, and then separate about June i and have two colonies ready for clover ^Tn^ere is usually a fairly good fall flow here of aster, goldenrod and buckwheat. and I wou
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1915. American liee Joarnal and the excluder ? Provided I five ample super room, would that be to prevent ^Tcould'l strengthen two colonies with safety to both queens by putting the weak one over the strong one ,; A/ Alexander w th two Queen-exckKlers between, so as to keep the queens from hEliimg through, hen put a newsparer between at time of "n|l'"i-'. ,, /, Miller, and then separate about June i and have two colonies ready for clover ^Tn^ere is usually a fairly good fall flow here of aster, goldenrod and buckwheat. and I would like to know if caging the queen in June or ]uly to prevent swarming woul be practiced at a loss in regard to a boney? Would not the removal of the ueen for ten days during June result in the OSS of about 20,000 bees, hguring 2000 eggs a day, that would be ready for a fall flow Aug. '^^ In I. K. Hand's article in Gleanings in Bee Culture Oct. 15. lou. he says: Fhe reigning Queen will be executed without par'ley or ; and on page '' Glean^ ings for Dec 1=;. ioi4. he says- For bees have a decided antipathy against virgins when eggsand larva; are ; Unless one dequeens how could one be sure there were no eggs or larva- present? What is ^our experience with " requeening without deciueening?" Pennsylvania. Unless your bees are un- usually " forward ; they may be be- hind time on the program you are laying out for them. You say add a hive below "as soon as the queen needs the ; and evidently expect her to need it so early that she will have the brood-nest extended into the lower story by May 20. Maybe she will. Mostly, I should expect, she won't. At any rate it will do no particular harm to have the empty story below. Suppose there is nothing doing below, and May 20 you put the queen on the foundation under the excluder. In too many cases the queen will swarm out, unless you put something in the way o
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