Gleanings in bee culture . od-nest partlytilled with oldcapped honey,especiallywhen therehad been heavycombs insert-ed near thejcenter of thejh i V e , suchIcombs form-Jmg a completefdivision- boardthrough the brood-nest or a little to oneside? When we visit our friends apiariesand find only an occasional colony work-ing in their supers, if we should take a smo-ker and open these hives that are doinglittle or nothing, nme times out of ten weshould find tbat their brood-nest was so sur-rounded with capped honey that the queencould hardly find room enough to rear thenecessary brood for a good-si
Gleanings in bee culture . od-nest partlytilled with oldcapped honey,especiallywhen therehad been heavycombs insert-ed near thejcenter of thejh i V e , suchIcombs form-Jmg a completefdivision- boardthrough the brood-nest or a little to oneside? When we visit our friends apiariesand find only an occasional colony work-ing in their supers, if we should take a smo-ker and open these hives that are doinglittle or nothing, nme times out of ten weshould find tbat their brood-nest was so sur-rounded with capped honey that the queencould hardly find room enough to rear thenecessary brood for a good-sized nucleus. About the first of August a bee-keeping ac-quaintance called to see me in regard to hisnot securmg any surplus this summer. Hewas a man of considerable experience withbees, and had fairly good Italians. He wasusing lU-frame Laugstroth hives, and had inthe spring about lUU colonies that had win-tered well, and was heavy in honey whentaken from the cellar. After I questioned 1378 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Nov. 1. SOME OF ALEXANDER S STRONG COLONIES. At the time this picture was taken, even in May, there were 237 colonies in the apiary, so strong that not allthe bees could get into the hives at one time, even at night. him some he told me that he had about 150heavy combs that he had saved from lastseason to give to his bees in the spring tostimulate early breeding as some recommend-ed. These he distributed among his hives,so as he thought he would surely have strongcolonies ready for the first How of here he was disappointed. His beeswould not work in the supers, neither forcomb nor extracted honey. He went so faras to unite several colonies, putting the beesof from two to live colonies all in one hivein order to get up a working force. I askedif those hives were not crowded with honeywhich caused them to be weak in workerbees. He said he had not thought of that,but they certainly were very heavy. I ask-ed him about how much brood they ! not much, he
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