. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 80 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL March less resistance in a building tlian out- side. When the bees fly out, the sur- roundings are unfamiliar to them and they lose the desire to sting. Stritt- matter cuts a small corner of each window-pane in each of the four corn- ers of the sash, to permit the bees to escape. Another important advantage is the control of swarming, which is a very simple matter under these conditions. Some years there have been no swarms in the Strittmatter house apiaries, as all that seems to be nec- -essary to control swarming entirely is
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 80 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL March less resistance in a building tlian out- side. When the bees fly out, the sur- roundings are unfamiliar to them and they lose the desire to sting. Stritt- matter cuts a small corner of each window-pane in each of the four corn- ers of the sash, to permit the bees to escape. Another important advantage is the control of swarming, which is a very simple matter under these conditions. Some years there have been no swarms in the Strittmatter house apiaries, as all that seems to be nec- -essary to control swarming entirely is to give the bees plenty of room, and retain young queens. In the same report from which the quotation from Langstroth above men- tioned is taken appears the following: "Mr. Sturtevant uses a large bee- house but does not allow the bees in it to swarm, but always divides his swarms, taking the queenless swarm away from the apiary, and if desirable returning it to the house after the queen is fecundated. « * * Hives must not be placed on a common level, where they can run from one to another. His bees had laid up an immense quantity of honey the last season; the house is airy and cool, built of brick. Hives should face in different ; Strittmatter tries to have young that the colony is in proper condi- tion for winter and to put the cover in place and throw the quilts or other top packing over the tops of the hives. The cost of winter cases and the labor of annual packing is saved by this plan. Rainy days are no hindrance to work, as it is possible to remove the honey inside a house apiary with a minimum of discomfort at any time HOUSE APIARIES OF OTHER DAYS. After paying a visit to Mr. Stritt- matter and seeing how enthusiastic he is over the house apiary after seven years of trial, I have been much at a loss to determine why they are not more generally used. Many well known beekeepers tried them in the early nineties and the journals for several years were
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