. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 169 hive the more storing we shall have even if a good many of the bees be quite young. Without, perhaps, giving any satisfactory reason for it, I am also quite of the opinion that better work is generally done when bees are allowed to' go right along rearing brood at their own sweet will; for toward the close of the harvest they, of their own accord, curtail work in that Fig. 57—Folding Sections. NON-SWARMING PEEFEERED TO FORCED. While I yield to no one in my appreciation of the advan- tages of forced swarming over na
. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 169 hive the more storing we shall have even if a good many of the bees be quite young. Without, perhaps, giving any satisfactory reason for it, I am also quite of the opinion that better work is generally done when bees are allowed to' go right along rearing brood at their own sweet will; for toward the close of the harvest they, of their own accord, curtail work in that Fig. 57—Folding Sections. NON-SWARMING PEEFEERED TO FORCED. While I yield to no one in my appreciation of the advan- tages of forced swarming over natural swarming, I believe that the advantages of no swarming whatever over forced swarming are as great as the advantages of forced over natural swarming. So you will hardly blame me if instead of resting content with forced swarming I continue to puisue that will-o'-the-wisp —in the opinion of many—non-swarming. KEEPING COLONIES QtTEENLESS. The next season after practicing the removal of two frames of brood, I settled upon a plan which I felt pretty sure would. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Miller, C. C. (Charles C. ), 1831-1920. Medina, Ohio : A. I. Root Co.
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