. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 39th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL, SEPTEMBER 28. 1899, No, The Home Bee-Yard—Quadruple Hives. BY K. FRANCE. THIS picture shows a part of our home yard of Lang- stroth hives, made to hold four colonies each. We work them for extracted honey, 8 frames in a set, 3 tiers high, making 24 Langstroth frames to each colony. We could use tliem higher if we wanted to. but we think 3 is about right. How do we manage those hives? I will commence in the spring of the year. When fruit-trees and dandelions are in blossom we set our hive-tent over one of the hives, put al
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 39th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL, SEPTEMBER 28. 1899, No, The Home Bee-Yard—Quadruple Hives. BY K. FRANCE. THIS picture shows a part of our home yard of Lang- stroth hives, made to hold four colonies each. We work them for extracted honey, 8 frames in a set, 3 tiers high, making 24 Langstroth frames to each colony. We could use tliem higher if we wanted to. but we think 3 is about right. How do we manage those hives? I will commence in the spring of the year. When fruit-trees and dandelions are in blossom we set our hive-tent over one of the hives, put all the brood into the bottom story, honey into the sec- ond story, empty combs up into the third story, and clip the queen. If there is more brood than enough to fill the bot- tom story, we give it to any colony that lacks enough brood to fill the lower part (8 frames). We aim to have every colony have 8 brood-combs at this time of the year, and we usually find enough brood in the yard to give all eight brood-combs, and have some to make a few new colo- nies, after going over the yard in this way. We don't do anything more until we find they are getting more than a living. If there is clover, about June IS we go over the bees again, see that all have 8 brood-combs, and make new colonies with the surplus brood- combs. Now, if we have a good flow of honey from clover, we will soon commence to extract, keep- ing the brood in the lower story, and extracting from the two up- per ones. We watch the honey- sources closely, and aim to have the upper set of combs full at the close of the basswood honey-flow. I used to take oft' the third stories in September or first of October, and see that the second story was full of honey, but the last two j-ears I have left the third stories on full of honey, and find the bees have wintered splen- didly in that way. They came thru the winter strong, and no spring feeding needed to be done. If you want to winter bees out-of-doors, give them a large
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