. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 664 THE AMERICAN BEE JOLRMAL. Sept. 29, Report of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Texas State Bee-Keepers' Association, Held at College Station, Tex., July 5 to 8, 1904. REPORTED BY LOUIS H. SCHOLL. iCoatinued from page 646.) SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF OUT-APIARIES. The most important factor in this line of work, I believe, is to be done in cleaning of frames, bottom-boards and hives in general. See that all colonies have queens, and how breed- ing is progressing. In cleaning hives, etc., it has always been easier to have an hive-body and
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 664 THE AMERICAN BEE JOLRMAL. Sept. 29, Report of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Texas State Bee-Keepers' Association, Held at College Station, Tex., July 5 to 8, 1904. REPORTED BY LOUIS H. SCHOLL. iCoatinued from page 646.) SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF OUT-APIARIES. The most important factor in this line of work, I believe, is to be done in cleaning of frames, bottom-boards and hives in general. See that all colonies have queens, and how breed- ing is progressing. In cleaning hives, etc., it has always been easier to have an hive-body and bottom-board. The first thing is to set the colony off to one side and put the empty hive down, then proceed to clean frames and place in the empty hive down, then proceed to clean frames and place in the empty hive-body. In this method I find we kill less bees, and work faster. The next time around we spread brood. That is, those colonies that need it, and it has been my experience that nearly all colonies with brood in four frames need it, if there are enough bees to cluster on 6 frames. I generally give them one comb in the middle, then place pollen frames on the outside of the brood-nest, and on each visit to the yard thereafter I spread likewise. After the first spreading I always place the comb containing eggs and larvae on the outside of the sealed frames of brood, so in case of any chilling it will be better for the colony to lose the larvae than the brood, as we are working for young bees to help rear more brood, and as a rule queens lay in combs between hatching brood better than they do between combs containing larvae and eggs. As I have described brood spreading I will describe equal- izing. It is my opinion that it is the best policy to build up strong colonies by help from the weaker ones. Of course, if you have plenty of time to stimulate brood-rearing, and if your strong colonies Iiave 8 to lo frames of brood, then take a frame of hatching brood from the strong
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