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June, 1912 



American Hm Journal 



a good deal while others may have very 

 little or none. Therefore, it is advis- 

 able to change some of the combs so 

 that all will have about an equal share 

 of brood,- as some nuclei might other- 

 wise have too much brood to care for 

 properly. 



This done, these supers are set on as 

 many new bottom-boards, a cover 

 placed on each, the whole fastened to- 

 gether for moving, and the entrances 

 closed with screen-wire entrance 

 closers. A caged queen is given to each 

 nucleus thus made. All are then loaded 

 on a spring wagon and hauled to the 

 new place, the entrances partly opened, 

 and left alone for a week or more, ac- 

 cording to the time the bee-keeper has 

 to spare. 



When these are nicely built up an- 

 other super of combs is given, and you 

 have that many divisible brood-cham- 

 ber colonies in a new apiary. 



" Do It With Hired Help " 



That suggestion of friend Wesley 

 Foster, in the May issue, is of greater 

 importance than many bee-keepers can 

 comprehend. There are too many bee- 

 keepers who do most of their work 

 themselves, when they could have it 

 done much cheaper and just as well. 

 The writer remembers when he started 

 out to have more of the general work 

 done by others while he attended to 

 the business side of bee-keeping; to- 

 ward its expansion and the improve- 

 ment of the methods of doing things 

 with a minimum of labor and expense, 

 and a maximum of profits. Some bee- 

 keepers doubted the advisability of 

 such a venture. They seemed to think 

 that it paid better to do the work them- 

 selves and hire only such help as was 

 actually needed when the bee-keeper 

 could handle it all alone. 



Such a method of bee-keeping en- 

 ables one to enlarge the business to a 

 far greater and more profitable extent 

 than if an attempt is made to do it 

 alone. More apiaries can be main- 

 tained. The bee-keeper should con- 

 sider himself the business manager of 

 his concern, planning his operations 

 with a view of expanding to larger 

 proportions. He should study out 

 systems of. management that will en- 

 able him to employ assistants as he 

 needs them in the management of the 

 business. Of course, not all bee-keep- 

 ers have the ability to do such things 

 on a large scale, but many bee-keepers 

 may start slowly at first, and, with a 

 little effort and study, learn how to in- 

 crease the operations so that in time 

 the business may be a large one. 



If you will study any well regulated 

 concern you will find that there are 

 managers whose duty it is to look 

 after the details, who study these mat- 

 ters with a view of perfecting their 

 business systems and methods so that 

 the most profitable ends may be 

 reached. It is the man who uses more 

 brain and less brawn nowadays that 

 will reach the highest success. A man 

 can do just so much work and no more, 

 consequently his goal is soon reached, 

 in the expansion of his apiary business, 

 if the work is done without assistance. 

 Far better it is to have more of the 

 work done by others. 



Sweet Clovee is a Good Cover Crop in the Orchard; But Don't Let Arsenical 

 Spray Fall Upon the Blooming Clover. 



Carniolans and Swarming 



We have tried Carniolans, and have 

 found, after experimenting with them 

 for a long time, that they are a valua- 

 ble race, and that they can be kept 

 from swarming as easily as any other 

 race of bees with the proper manage- 

 ment. The trait of excessive swarm- 

 ing has gone against this quiet, gentle 

 race of profitable honey gatherers. 

 Our experience has shown that they 

 require larger hives than other races, 

 and with the proper attention just be- 

 fore the danger of swarming, this trait 

 becomes unnoticeable. The secret, 

 therefore, is in having large hives and 

 keeping them contented and busy. 



We have since then adopted the same 

 methods for all other races of bees, 

 with the result that we have no trouble 

 about swarming, although our apiaries 

 number over 31) now. 



It is no wonder to us that Carnio- 

 lans swarm a good deal when kept in 

 a single 8-frame Langstroth brood- 

 chamber. Even a 10-frame Langstroth 

 hive is too small for them. This is due 

 to the prolificness of the queens, and 

 as these breed up early, the above hives 



are soon crowded. These are exactly 

 the conditions that mean the much- 

 dreaded swarming, especially to the 

 bee-keeper with out-yards. 



We attempted to provide more room 

 to the 10-frame hives by adding a shal- 

 low super of combs in early spring. 

 This allowed additional breeding room 

 besides furnishing storage room for 

 honey that was gathered earh' in the 

 spring beyond that used for brood- 

 rearing, it also permitted the bees to 

 move honey from the brood-combs be- 

 low into these super combs. This left 

 a less crowded condition of the brood- 

 chamber, and the whole resulted in the 

 production of rousing colonies of bees 

 for the honey-flow. 



There was still another trouble to 

 overcome, however. As long as there 

 was a chance for a congested brood- 

 nest to develop, there was a likelihood 

 of swarming. A colony of bees .Tiay 

 swarm just as vehemently if clustered 

 on the combs in an upper corner of a 

 large dry-goods box, with plenty of 

 empty space ail about the colony, if 

 the brood-nest is a solid mass of brood. 

 The same condition existing in a 

 smaller compartment would make mat- 



