. Gleanings in bee culture . a colo-ny is below normalstrength it may be giv-en a single section inthe early part of theseason, thus reducingthe brood-chamber tothe requirements ofthe colony. Again, agood colony just en-tering f r u i t - b 1 o o mneeds more room; butto add a full - dei)thbrood-chamber abovewould tlo more harmthan good, for the vol-ume of such is toolarge for the bees tomaintain the proi)ertemperature for brood-rearing. Thus the beeshave to cluster moreclosely than they dobefore the extra roomis given, which reducesthe brood-nest insteadof enlarging it. If halfthe space, or, i
. Gleanings in bee culture . a colo-ny is below normalstrength it may be giv-en a single section inthe early part of theseason, thus reducingthe brood-chamber tothe requirements ofthe colony. Again, agood colony just en-tering f r u i t - b 1 o o mneeds more room; butto add a full - dei)thbrood-chamber abovewould tlo more harmthan good, for the vol-ume of such is toolarge for the bees tomaintain the proi)ertemperature for brood-rearing. Thus the beeshave to cluster moreclosely than they dobefore the extra roomis given, which reducesthe brood-nest insteadof enlarging it. If halfthe space, or, in otherwords, a single shallowsection of a hive begiven, the colony will be able to occupy it. The sectional hive plays a very imjjortantro/r in the production of a large croj) of fan-cy comb honey. JJy means of it we gi\ethe bees sufficient room to keep them fromgetting the swarming fever when they aregathering lioney at the ojieningof the mainflow. At svich a time I take away all butone section of the brood-nest by smoking. A s\\ ai lu llial clustered in a convenient ijlace lor hi\ in^ July 1, 1911 the bees down or shaking them, and thengive comb-honey supers to take the place ofthe brood-sections removed. The singlesection of brood left is large enough to main-t lin the strength of the colony. Fig. 2shows two colonies in Augvist during theflow of alfalfa which were reduced to a singlesection of brood on .fune 15. Each has twocomb-honey supers finished, and three wereremoved from each one on .July 10. Usual-ly from the 1st to the 10th of August wetake away all coml)-honey supers and givesectional brood-combs for the colonies tobuild up and store in for winter from fallbloom of goldenrod, asters, queen-of-the-May, snakeroot, etc. The sectional hive has this advantage al-so: After a colony has been breeding in alarge hive, one can easily reduce brood-rear-ing to a minim um at a time when bees shouldbe building comb instead of raising a fami-ly of consumers; for all bees, in exc
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