Gleanings in bee culture . tch in our management at this timewould mean a loss of dollars. Another ad-vantage gained by the two-queen system iskeeping the brood-chamber clear of two lower brood-sections occupied by onequeen being in the heart of the brood-cham-ber, no honey will be stored here, for beesdo not store honey below the brood, and willquickly remove any honey that may be soplaced by the apiarist. The fertility of thequeen in the top section being in excess ofthe room of the same, very little honey willstop here. This insures a brood-chamber fullof brood, and practically fr
Gleanings in bee culture . tch in our management at this timewould mean a loss of dollars. Another ad-vantage gained by the two-queen system iskeeping the brood-chamber clear of two lower brood-sections occupied by onequeen being in the heart of the brood-cham-ber, no honey will be stored here, for beesdo not store honey below the brood, and willquickly remove any honey that may be soplaced by the apiarist. The fertility of thequeen in the top section being in excess ofthe room of the same, very little honey willstop here. This insures a brood-chamber fullof brood, and practically free from honey,which will, together with other methods tobe described further along, solve the problemof perfect swarm control in connection withcomb-honey production. The 50 three-deck-ers with two queens are to be worked forcomb honey by our new system of non-swarming, and the 50 strong single-queencolonies are to be worked for extracted hon-ey. Later developments will show, how-ever, that the extracted honey will go into. FIG. y.—FINDING t^tUEENS IN SECTIONAL HIVES WITHOUT HANDLING FRAMES. If the queen is not seen on the cover or tops of the frames (Fig. 2), a queen-excluder is put on the lower sec-tion, and the upper section placed over it. Then smoke is blown down between these upper frames, and thesection tipped up as shown. The queen will nearly always be found on the excluder. 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 847 the sections, thus demonstrating the onlysystem of peifect swarm control that hasever yet been given to the public in connec-tion with comb-honey production. When Isay 7Jer/ec< swarm co?i^ro/. I mean a systemthat will keep the bees and brood togetherwith no desire to swarm. I am not gomg topromise you a system of perfect swaim con-trol and then give you an artificial swarmdestitute of hatching brood that is continual-ly becoming weakened by the loss of oldbees, and that hived in a brood-chamber socontracted with honey as to compel the beesto swarm out the nex
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