. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOLRNA*. 407 when other bees are busy, it looks suspicious, and if you find sealed queeu-celis present that's also a sign, but you can't be sure. Sometimes they have queen-ceils and don't swarm ; sometimes they swarm and have no queen-cells. Sometimes they hang out without swarming, and sometimes they swarm without hanging out. 13. They seem to like it, but it hinders the finishing of the sections that come nearest the opening. 14. There are cures by the hundred, but likely you'll swell in spite of them. After you've been stung
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOLRNA*. 407 when other bees are busy, it looks suspicious, and if you find sealed queeu-celis present that's also a sign, but you can't be sure. Sometimes they have queen-ceils and don't swarm ; sometimes they swarm and have no queen-cells. Sometimes they hang out without swarming, and sometimes they swarm without hanging out. 13. They seem to like it, but it hinders the finishing of the sections that come nearest the opening. 14. There are cures by the hundred, but likely you'll swell in spite of them. After you've been stung a good many times the stings will not swell much. 15. They probably went back to their own hive, or into some other hive in the apiary. Trying to Prevent Swarming. It was very cold and rainy here all the month of May, but my bees have filled their hives on willow and apple-bloom, and are very strong in numbers, so that I have put hives filled with old comb on top to keep them from swarming. I shall leave them on until raspberry blooms, then move the bottom hive to a new stand, keeping the queen in the bottom hive, giving frames of eggs to the upper hive on the old stand, and put on the super for comb honey. Do you think that will do, or would I better put the queen into the upper hive and let the bottom colony rear a queen ? They will have all the brood and eggs. I do not use a honey-board, but I never have had the queen go into the upper hive. Massachusetts. Answer.—Better leave the queen on the old stand with the story that has no brood, shaking off part of the bees from the brood before setting it on a new stand. But don't shake off more than half the frames, for all the field-bees will go back to the old stand Separators Necessary.—R. C. Aikin says weak colonies that build slowly must have separators or they will make combs bulged and uneven, as will strong colonies in a very weak flow.—Progressive Bee-Keeper. and glass. We afterwards found the split top-bar
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