. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [May 1, 1881. take them back to their home and throw them on to the alighting-board. If the swarm be large it may be necessary to increase the width of the board temporarily, and raise the hive an inch or so in front. Putting on Supers.âThese may be put on when there is an abundance of bees, plenty of honey in the fields and gardens, and fine weather to enable the bees to collect it. Bees will often store in sections on their own ground-floor, when they will not enter supers; hence it will be ad- visable to give th
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [May 1, 1881. take them back to their home and throw them on to the alighting-board. If the swarm be large it may be necessary to increase the width of the board temporarily, and raise the hive an inch or so in front. Putting on Supers.âThese may be put on when there is an abundance of bees, plenty of honey in the fields and gardens, and fine weather to enable the bees to collect it. Bees will often store in sections on their own ground-floor, when they will not enter supers; hence it will be ad- visable to give them the opportunity, though the sixers be afterwards placed on the top, as some recommend. White Grubs on Alighting Board indicate a serious check in the incoming of honey, and liberal feeding should instantly be resorted to. MANAGING AN APIARY.âSWARMING AND INCREASE OF STOCKS. Having shown the way to the honey-harvest, and how to get it to the hives, we now turn our attention to another profitable branch of apiculture, viz:, the production of swarms for sale, or for the purpose of increasing the apiary. We do not forget that we left a number of queens unemployed in our last number, or that we have promised to tell how to ripen extracted honey; but all will appear in due time, all being well. Our problem now is the multiplication of stocks, by swarming or division, and we are supposed to have ten fairly good ones in elastic frame-hives, and we are to do our best from May to October. We have already shown in the February Journal the way to stimulate bees to cause them to increase the populations in their hives, and we have now to show how they may be divided and subdivided to form separate colonies, and how to insure their estab- lishment with laying queens at their head. Leaving out all question of the superiority of any particular breed of bees, and devoting attention to the principles of increase only, we would suggest, in the first instance, that without the presence of dro
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