. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 388 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. Nov. 28, 1918. the brood hatches out. The queen is con- fined to one chamber by the use of a W'iIke's queen exclude]'. Strong Colonics are secured and swarm- ing checked by the following plan. When- ever the ten frames • forming the brood body show signs of brood congestion, a second full body is employed, and is at first placed on the floorboard, the other being raised above this one with a queen excluder between. Any queen cells found in the other are cut out, and the opera- tion is renewed if necessary every
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 388 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. Nov. 28, 1918. the brood hatches out. The queen is con- fined to one chamber by the use of a W'iIke's queen exclude]'. Strong Colonics are secured and swarm- ing checked by the following plan. When- ever the ten frames • forming the brood body show signs of brood congestion, a second full body is employed, and is at first placed on the floorboard, the other being raised above this one with a queen excluder between. Any queen cells found in the other are cut out, and the opera- tion is renewed if necessary every ten days, when the two brood bodies are inter- changed. On the best colonies a shallow frame rack is inserted between the two deeper bodies, with, of course, a queen excluder below. This appliance is noted in another place, as is also the queen per- suader. A queen Middle for trapping drones and queens Avhen old ruskies are brought in for the colony to be transferred later to fairly thick consistency, in which place your new queen carefully, so that she may not be injured. Let her be literally " drowned " in the honey. Remove the cover from the frames, using very little smoke to drive the bees back. Pour the queen and honey on to the top bar of a centre frame. Then with finger shove queen and honey in one large dollop down between the frames, and quickly close up the hive. Examine the hive in 3 or 4 days' time. and if she is a laying queen you will be certain to find eggs. Virgin queens are just as successfully introduced as fertile ones. Care must be taken not to injure the queen during the process. Out of the 100 queens introduced only one proved unsuccessful, and the failure could be assigned to other causes, not directly connected with the system of in- troduction. When driven bees are carried home to. METHOD OF SECURING HIVE ROOFS. a frame hive. As driving is being carried out the riddle is set above the lower case or skep, and while the drumming drives the be
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