. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. fuliUfiht Weekly at 111^ A/icJi*jfori Street. ^ a Veoi—Sample Copj- Free, 37th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., MAY 20, 1897. No. 20. #..£!S^^^*. Winter-Case Arrangement for Bees. BY PERCY O. ORTON. I forward to-day illustratloas of a winter-case which I made and am using. It works to perfection. It is 13 feet long, '^H feet wide, and 23-^ feet deep, and holds 10 two- super Dovetailed hives (8 frames each). The hives stand one inch apart in the case; the entrance is 7/16x12 inches, and enters a space in the case l%x2xl-l inches. A block 1x13^x2 inches is plac
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. fuliUfiht Weekly at 111^ A/icJi*jfori Street. ^ a Veoi—Sample Copj- Free, 37th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., MAY 20, 1897. No. 20. #..£!S^^^*. Winter-Case Arrangement for Bees. BY PERCY O. ORTON. I forward to-day illustratloas of a winter-case which I made and am using. It works to perfection. It is 13 feet long, '^H feet wide, and 23-^ feet deep, and holds 10 two- super Dovetailed hives (8 frames each). The hives stand one inch apart in the case; the entrance is 7/16x12 inches, and enters a space in the case l%x2xl-l inches. A block 1x13^x2 inches is placed between each hive at the entrance, and a strip Kx2 inches by 13 feet is nailed to the top of these blocks, forming the compartment 13^x2xl-i inches; " Artificial" Increase, or Dividing Colonies. BY- Q. M. DOOLITTLE. A mania seems to have siezed many of those keeping bees, for increase of colonies otherwise than by natural swarming, if my correspondence Is any criterion to go by, for, at no time in my bee-keeping life, have I had so many enquiries in this matter as during the past three months ; therefore, to save so much private correspondence I will give some of the plans which I use successfully, in the American Bee Journal, even though it may be, to quite a large extent, matter which I have given before. But before doing so, I wish to say, that for this locality, I prefer natural swarming to any plan of art- ificial increase, where only one swarm is allowed from each old colony, and where said swarm will issue In time to prepare both old and new colonies in good condition for the honey harvest. The first plan 1 will give for artificial increase is what is termed by some as the " nucleus ; To be of the most value, the nucleus should be forced IS or 20 days before the honey-harvest, by having enough bees in it to protect a frame two-thirds full of brood, the larger part of which should hatch during the first four or five days, while said comb sho
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