. Gleanings in bee culture . parated by only a Screen. BY GEO. W. RICH. The plan of keeping two queens in a hivewith two entrances is a success with me; butit has no advantage except in early brood-rearing. All ai)iarists know that, in a heavyhoney-flow, one queen furnishes all thebrood, and sometimes more than needed tokeep a full sui)i)ly of bees; but just beforethe honey-flow, one can hardly have toomany bees; hence the advantage of the twoqueens. In this locality the honey-flow be-gins from the 1st to the 15th of May. So, inorder to work my jilan one would have toorder his queens from some
. Gleanings in bee culture . parated by only a Screen. BY GEO. W. RICH. The plan of keeping two queens in a hivewith two entrances is a success with me; butit has no advantage except in early brood-rearing. All ai)iarists know that, in a heavyhoney-flow, one queen furnishes all thebrood, and sometimes more than needed tokeep a full sui)i)ly of bees; but just beforethe honey-flow, one can hardly have toomany bees; hence the advantage of the twoqueens. In this locality the honey-flow be-gins from the 1st to the 15th of May. So, inorder to work my jilan one would have toorder his queens from someone in the South,so as to have them by March loth. By thattime here, almost all colonies will have fromthree to four frames of brood or more. In each hive to be worked, shake all thebees off three or more frames of brood, andput them in an empty hive-body, withenough frames of combs containing somehoney to All the body. In i)lace of the threeframes of brood, insert three empty this first hive put a wire screen and.
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