. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1895. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 615 and swarming prevented, if plenty of storing mom will do it, but no other means will be triid to prevent swarming. Wlien a colony swarms they will be hived in one of my small handy hives, ou eight empty frames, with starters in them ; only the two outside frames will be filled with dummies. This will reduce the hive to SwO inches of comb space. I will hive on the starters only, provided I do not care to increase my colonies, for I know I can get more comb honey by hiving in an empty brood-chamber, but if I should co
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1895. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 615 and swarming prevented, if plenty of storing mom will do it, but no other means will be triid to prevent swarming. Wlien a colony swarms they will be hived in one of my small handy hives, ou eight empty frames, with starters in them ; only the two outside frames will be filled with dummies. This will reduce the hive to SwO inches of comb space. I will hive on the starters only, provided I do not care to increase my colonies, for I know I can get more comb honey by hiving in an empty brood-chamber, but if I should conclude I wanted to increase my colonies, I will fill the frames with full sheets of worker foundation on horizontal wires, so the foundation cannot stretch at the top and make drone-comb of it ; for, with me, a large cell, however made, is sure to be filled with male brood, if any, and I cannot afford to rear drones in my small hives (they are equally unprofitable in large hives); but whether I use empty frames, or frames of foundation, the hive will be contracted to 800 inches of comb space. The new hive will be set where the parent colony stood, the supers will be removed to it, the old colony placed on the vacant end of the double stand, with its entrance turned in the opposite direction, and the new swarm hived in the new. Mr. B. Taylor, Forcstville, Minn. hive, which will then be given all the cases of prepared sec- tions they can fill until the end of the basswood honey season, near the end of July, when all the cases of sections will be removed to the iron honey-house, where the cases will be set on end with one inch of space between them, so the air can be circulated through them freely. Here they will remain some 60 days at a high temperature and plenty of circulating air, and the honey even in the uncapped cells will become so thick as not to leak, even if left lying on its side. If I conclude to increase my colonies, the parent hive will be removed to a new stand the
Size: 1318px × 1896px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectbees, bookyear1861
