1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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the hiver. The drones are now all prisoners in 

 'the box. As soon as the worker bees that have 

 been cauRht with the drones have escaped 

 through the perforated zinc top, shake the 

 box pretty hard for a few moments, which will 

 stnn the drones, then withdraw the tin slide 

 and empty the box on the ground, where the 

 drones may be killed by tramping them with 

 the foot. 



THE ANDERSON SWA KM -HIVER AS USED IN 

 THE PRODUCTION OF COMB HONEY. 



For the production of comb honey I have 

 found no better method than the following: 



After putting on the swarm-hiver I place 

 four frames filled with sheets of foundation in 

 the empty hive. The fourth or fifth day after 

 the bees have swarmed, the swarm will have 

 settled down to work, and will have the foun- 

 dation in the four frames well drawn out. I 

 then in the middle of the day, while the bees 

 are flying freely, take four frames of hatching 

 brood, with the adhering bees, out of the parent 

 hive, removing all queen-cells if there are any 

 on them, and place two of the frames on each 

 side of the four frames of foundation in the 

 swarm hive. I then take the half-story with 

 the sections and bees off the parent hive and 

 place it on the swarm-hive; then remove the 

 hiver, and move the parent hive with the four 

 remaining frames of brood to a new location. 



All the field-bees from the parent hive will 

 now return to the swarm-hive, which, with the 

 four frames of hatching brood taken from the 

 parent hive, will make the swarm very strong; 

 and the swarming fever having been satisfied, 

 work will go right along in the sections. When 

 the next colony swarms I proceed in the same 

 manner and place the parent hive, when re- 

 moved, by the side of the parent colony that cast 

 the first swarm. As soon as the first parent 

 hive has a laying queen I remove the queen 

 from the other hive, if they have one, and then 

 double the two together by placing the frames 

 from each hive alternately in the same hive. I 

 then put on a super full of sections, and if hon- 

 ey is coming in freely the bees will enter the 

 sections at once. By this method the increase 

 is kept down to one colony for every two swarms. 

 If increase of colonies is desired, instead of 

 doubling the parent hives put in each parent 

 hive four frames of comb or foundation, and 

 allow them to build up. 



By the above method there will be no second 

 swarms, as the removal of the four frames of 

 brood and bees, and the loss of the fii^Jd-bees. so 

 weakens the parent hive that, as soon as the 

 first queen hatches, the remaining queen-cells 

 are destroyed. 



[After friend Anderson had sent the forego- 

 ing, he later sent the following, with another 

 drawing showing the arrangement somewhat 

 simplified. We have had it also engraved.— 

 Ed.] 



Within the past two days I have thought of 



a slight improvement in it, as will appear in 

 the drawing which I inclose herewith. You 

 will ''notice T have cut olT the corner of the 

 chamber in front of the colony, and beveled the 

 hive, thus doing away with a useless vacant 



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space — making the hive less bulky, and con- 

 siderably decreasing the amount of lumber re- 

 quired to make it. When made as shown in 

 the drawing, a k'-i'ich board 10 in. longer than 

 the top board of the hive sent you, cut diag- 

 onally, will make both top and bottom of the 

 hive, and no end board is required in the bev- 

 eled end, as the front board nails! up to the 

 block in the end of the hive. 

 Bloomsbury, N. J. 



THE DANZENBAKER HIVE AND SECTION. 



By F. Dnnzenhaker . 



Forty years ago I managed bees in box hives, 

 and then progressed to the Quinby and Amer- 

 ican hives, with large and deep brood-chambers 

 and combs, liable to stretch, sae, and bulge, 

 when heavy with honey. The care of keeping 

 the hives exactly level to secure nice straight 

 combs true in the frames led me then to desire 

 a shallow comb-frame, more than 35 years ago, 

 which I laid aside when the Simplicity hive 

 came in vogue, that I might be in fashion with 

 those using the standard hive and 4^| x A}^ sec- 

 tion, the production of comb honey being my 

 specialty; and during that time I have been a 

 close observer of others, testing what I thought 

 desirable improvements, including the open and 

 closed end frames and the Hoffman deep top- 

 bars, etc. However, I am chiefly indebted to 

 the champion comb-honey producer, Capt. J. 

 E. Hetheringtou, of Cherry Valley, N. Y. (who 

 has raised 40 tons of comb honey in a year), 

 from whom I learned the superiority of the ob- 

 long deep honey-sections as used by him and 

 others in New York and the East. Twenty-five 

 percent more of them will stand on a given 

 hive surface than the standard 4I4 x 4V sec- 

 tions; and this form conveys a better impres- 

 sion of full weights. Having space for a deep- 

 er cluster, the bees enter them more readily; 

 and, filling them out better at the sides, they 

 are safer in transportation; more attractive in 

 appearance, they sell for two cents each more 

 in market. Thirty-two of these deep sections, 

 in a case, require no more hive surface than 24 

 43^ X 4J4 sections on the eight-frame Dovetailed 



