. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. e (§ee-Keepeps J^eviea^ A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to th|e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR, W. Z. HOTCHnJSON, Editor and ProDiletor. VOL. VIII, FLINT, MICHIGAN, MAR. 10. 1895. NO. 3. Work at IVEicliigaii's Experimental r. l. taylor, apiarist. the management of swarming. conser's hive. niHIS hive was 'T' seut to me in 1898 too late to be put to any test that season, but during the last season it was given such trial as the character of the year in re- spect to the flow of nectar permit- ted. It is neces- sary by way of explanation to sa
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. e (§ee-Keepeps J^eviea^ A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to th|e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR, W. Z. HOTCHnJSON, Editor and ProDiletor. VOL. VIII, FLINT, MICHIGAN, MAR. 10. 1895. NO. 3. Work at IVEicliigaii's Experimental r. l. taylor, apiarist. the management of swarming. conser's hive. niHIS hive was 'T' seut to me in 1898 too late to be put to any test that season, but during the last season it was given such trial as the character of the year in re- spect to the flow of nectar permit- ted. It is neces- sary by way of explanation to say that this so-called hive is not properly a hive in the usual acceptation of the term, but is rather a device used in connection with hives con- taining bees for the purpose of preventing swarming. The device which outwardly has much the appearance of a hive except that it has two round holes upon each side and also upon one end, internally three com- partments each of the capacity necessary for three combs. Into each of the compart- ments are two passage-ways from the out- side which are formed by the holes just men-. tioned. One device is calculated to answer for three colonies. When in use it is ar- ranged with a hive at each side, and one at the end having the opening, at a distance of two or three inches, each hive being con- nected with one of the compartments of the device by means of a tube passed into one of the holes already referred to and also into a corresponding one in the hive itself in such a way that the bees can pass back and forth from the hive to the compartment to which it is attached, but the queen is excluded from the device by means of a piece of per- forated zinc fixed in the tube. Each of the other openings serves as an entrance to its compartment. The theory upon which the success of the device rests is that a colony, so long as there is empty comb in the brood nest for the re- ception of eggs, will not contract a desire to swarm, and in order to se
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