. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1920 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 85 Twelve hives of bees, each con- taining two queens, w^ere wintered in the cellar in 1918. Eight of these were in 10-frame hives, and four in 12-fraine hives. All wintered v/ell. Two of the 10-frame hives were taken to a farmer's garden three miles south of the city on May 8, 1919. The bees and queen on the right side of the 'hive were trans- ferred to separate hives on May 27. (This transference would have been better done ten or fifteen days ear- lier). The. four colonie: built up rap- idly. On June 24, when all the colo-
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1920 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 85 Twelve hives of bees, each con- taining two queens, w^ere wintered in the cellar in 1918. Eight of these were in 10-frame hives, and four in 12-fraine hives. All wintered v/ell. Two of the 10-frame hives were taken to a farmer's garden three miles south of the city on May 8, 1919. The bees and queen on the right side of the 'hive were trans- ferred to separate hives on May 27. (This transference would have been better done ten or fifteen days ear- lier). The. four colonie: built up rap- idly. On June 24, when all the colo- nies had eggs or larvse in queen- cells, showing that they were pre- paring to swartn, all the queens were removed. On July 3, the queen-cells were destroyed, two being left or given, one on either side of a double wire-cloth division then inserted. No swarming took place and on July 29, when the white honey crop was re- moved, the brood chambers were ex- amined. One had brood in all stages on both sides of the division; the other three had brood on one side only. The loss of one or two of these queens was probably due to the hives being less than a foot apart. One super was put on each hive for the dark honey crop, which, owing to drought, proved a partial failure, and all the supers were re- moved, partly filled, on September 23. The yield of one of the original hives was 230 pounds of white honey and 30 pounds of dark honey, total 260 pounds, which was sold at 27 cents for $ The other hive gave 351 pounds of white honey and 52 pounds of dark, total 403 pounds, which was sold for $ In addi- tion to the honey produced, there was an increase of three hives of bees, or 150 per cent. One of these had been built up from nuclei with two of the old queens. Allowing $7 each for the value of the three new hives, and deducting $ for 111 pounds of sugar fed for winter, and $6 for three combs of honey that were given to the nuclei, the average return per hive, spring c
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