. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July, 1915. 243 American Hee Journal ^^ fli ? J^P^^^ ^^U' \f Iff ? *^l ?HHi 1^ *^ fe W ^^ k. .--, 1 [ILm A GROUP OF AMATKUK INSPEC'lijRS AT THE CRANDALL Al'IARY IX NEW BERLIN. CONN. would allow an exhibit to be placed in his window, and if it is done at a time when a frame or two of bees can be shown, with a printed card such as " Find the Queen," would serve as a means to attract attention and get peo- ple to thinking of honey when they otherwise would hardly give it a pass- ing thought. A great many people re- gard honey as a luxury, and w
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July, 1915. 243 American Hee Journal ^^ fli ? J^P^^^ ^^U' \f Iff ? *^l ?HHi 1^ *^ fe W ^^ k. .--, 1 [ILm A GROUP OF AMATKUK INSPEC'lijRS AT THE CRANDALL Al'IARY IX NEW BERLIN. CONN. would allow an exhibit to be placed in his window, and if it is done at a time when a frame or two of bees can be shown, with a printed card such as " Find the Queen," would serve as a means to attract attention and get peo- ple to thinking of honey when they otherwise would hardly give it a pass- ing thought. A great many people re- gard honey as a luxury, and will only use it sparingly, or in case of colds. I find a good many who use honey and lemon juice for colds, and seem to think it an unfailing remedy. I am enclosing pictures of our two children who take delight in working with the bees, and are shown with a mating hive open. No. 2 shows them with some of our friends from the city who are handling bees for the first time, and No. 3 shows the apiary of Mr. Pratt, of The Con- necticut Beekeepers' Association held their annual convention at his home last summer. Mr. Pratt is the gentle- man in the middle with his coat off. Berlin, Conn. Crandall Apiary. Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal or direct to Dr. C. C. Miller. Marengo, III. He does not answer bee-keepine questions by mail. Swarm Prevention When a hive is "full of bees" add a super full of frames with comb and founda- tion: when the added body is fairly filled up. set an excluder between the two About a week or ten days later separate the two hive-bodies, putting the one added on the old stand and the original hive-body beside it. so that the queen will be in the added hive-body on the old stand, which is to be ascertained by the presence of eggs in one hive-body or the other tj/h-r four days. Then the queen is to be transferred to the hive- body that was added and now on the old stand. The question is: I The queen ha
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