. Gleanings in bee culture . ere allin at 1 Just nine days laterI examined the swarmand found every one ofthe ten full sheets offoundation drawn outso that one couldhardly get a lead-pen-cil between. Owing tounfavorable weatherconditions it was notuntil June 10 that I put on an extracting-super to bait the bees above. I left it on forthree days, at the end of which period thebees had built out all the foundation nearlytwo-thirds, and had stored some honey. Ithen raised the extracting-super and placeda super of section boxes beneath. One daylater I put a bee-escape board between andthen re
. Gleanings in bee culture . ere allin at 1 Just nine days laterI examined the swarmand found every one ofthe ten full sheets offoundation drawn outso that one couldhardly get a lead-pen-cil between. Owing tounfavorable weatherconditions it was notuntil June 10 that I put on an extracting-super to bait the bees above. I left it on forthree days, at the end of which period thebees had built out all the foundation nearlytwo-thirds, and had stored some honey. Ithen raised the extracting-super and placeda super of section boxes beneath. One daylater I put a bee-escape board between andthen removed the extracting-super. By the24th of June it became necessary to put onthe second super, as the first one was entire-ly filled, including the outside row, andthree or four rows of cells in each sectionwere capped. The old hive, the second day after theswarm issued, was divided into two five-frame nuclei, the frames being so arrangedthat each nucleus had five or six queen-cellsand an equal share of brood and stores. This. FIG. 3. -COMB HONEY PRODUCED IN ONE MONTH BY A SWARM HIVED ON COMB FOUN-DATION. 1911 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 307
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