. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. COMB HONEY. 435. supers, over it. The honey contained in the brood ehambei;, which is always placed above and be- hind the brood, safe from pilfering in- truders, is now at the bottom, near the entrance. The cells are wrong side up (fig. 190), and the most watery honey is in danger of leaking out. Hence an uproar in the hivg, and the imme- diate result is, that the bees promptly occupy the upper story, and store in it all this ill-situated honey. The result is so radical, that "reversing bee-keep- ers" admit that their bees have to be f
. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. COMB HONEY. 435. supers, over it. The honey contained in the brood ehambei;, which is always placed above and be- hind the brood, safe from pilfering in- truders, is now at the bottom, near the entrance. The cells are wrong side up (fig. 190), and the most watery honey is in danger of leaking out. Hence an uproar in the hivg, and the imme- diate result is, that the bees promptly occupy the upper story, and store in it all this ill-situated honey. The result is so radical, that "reversing bee-keep- ers" admit that their bees have to be fed in the Fall, as too little honey is , left in the brood chamber for the hives to winter on. In the box-hive times, the following was already the almost unanimous report of bee-keepers on the results of "; The. re- cruiting and feeding for Winter of reversed colonies being considered too costly and risky, the apiaries were supplied every year with new' colonies bought' from bee-keepers whose business was to raise swarms to sell. "If you want the greatest quantity of honey, reverse your colonies; but if reversing was practiced everywhere, we would diminish" the number of our colonies, and would finally even destroy the race of bees, for as far as bee reproduction is con- cerned the 'reversing Apiarist' reaches the same result as the 'brimstoning Apiarist.' "—^French Apiarian Congress, Paris, 1861. L'Apiculteur, Volume, 6, page 175. In the present state of progress in bee culture, "reversing" is less damaging, but its disadvantages to the bees cannot over- balance its advantages, unless it is practiced very cautiously and sparingly. TSy. Yet this practice is sufficiently enticing—as it-forces the bees to occupy the supers so quickly—to have caused the Pig. 190. SLOPE or THE CELLS WHEN Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloratio
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