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GLEANINGS IN BJEE CULTURE 



June, 1918 



queen-excluder. One comb containing some un- 

 sealed brood and eggs is left in the brood-chamber 

 as a start for the queen. I fiU out the brood-cham- 

 ber with empty combs, a.s I have a full outfit for m 

 apiary. But full frames of foundation, or even 

 starters, may be used in the absence of drawn 

 combs. 



"When the manipulation is completed, the colony 

 has all its brood M'ith the ([ueen, only its condition 

 is altered. The queen has a ivew brood-nest below 

 the excluder, while the combs of brood are in the 

 center of the super, with the sides filled out with 

 empty combs above the queen-excluder. 



"In 21 days all the brood will be hatched out above 

 the excluder, and the bees will begin to hatch in the 

 queen's chamber below the excluder; so a continuous 

 succ«ssion of young bees is well sustained. 



"If my object is to take the honey with the ex- 

 tractor, I tier up with a surplus of extracting combs 

 as fast as the large colony needs the room to store 

 surplus. Usually the combs above the excluder will 

 be filled with honey by the time all the bees are 

 hatched out, and no system is as sure to give one 

 set of combs full of honey for the extractor in the 

 very pooreist seasons; and if the season is propiti- 

 ous the yield will be enormous under proper man- 

 agement. 



"The great economy of this system is, all the colo- 

 nies will produce as nearly alike as can wei'.l be — a 

 condition of things that never occurs in any apiary 

 swayed by the swarming impulse. If my object is 

 fancy comb honey I tier the section-cases on the 

 super that contains the brood, and push the beeis 

 to start all the combs they can. 



"The system described above works perfectly if 

 applied immediately after a swarm issues. The 

 only difference in the manipulation in this case 

 is that no brood or eggs is left in the brood-nest 

 where the swarm is hived back." 



Demaree's Plan of 1894. 



In the next allusion we find to this meth- 

 ( American Bee Journal, page 633, 1895). 

 Demaree speaks of leaving an entrance 



Demaree's Plan of 1894, for 



swarm prevention. All brood 



raii-ed. 



above; and instead of leaving below one 

 comb with eggs and young larva?, he simply 

 says he raised the brood above. 



"In piacticing my plan to prevent swarming, 

 which consists in the simple manipulation of rais- 

 ing the brood above the zinc excluder and starting 

 the queen afre.sh below, I make a hole in the upper 

 story for the drones to escape from the upper story, 

 as they cannot pass out at the entrance because the 

 excluder is between." 



Demaree's Plan of 1895. 



The last description we find given by De- 

 maree was in an issue of the following year 



(American Bee Journal, page 638, 1895). 

 There we note that when he wanted increase 

 he allowed natural swarming. When he 

 desired no increase he raised all the the seal- 

 ed brood. He stated the plan as follows: 



"I want a system of management that will keep 

 the full working-force of the colony together during 

 the entire honey flow unless I want to increase my 

 colonies by taking a prime swarm from each colony. 

 If I want no increase I prevent swarming by rais- 

 ing all the sealed brood above the queeni excluder 

 and confine the queen be<low the excluder. If I 



Demaree's Plan of 1895. For 

 no increase, he used above 

 plan. Ftar increase, allowed 

 to swarm, shaking some bees 

 from old colony into new. 



want the prime swarm, I let them come, hive them 

 on the old stand, remove the parent colony to a 

 new location, after shaking enough bees from the 

 combs to prevent after-swarms." 



Demaree 's four plans may be summarized 

 as follows: The colony was made queenless 

 and nearly broodless for ten days (1884). 

 The queen and one frame of eggs and larvae 

 were left below; above this were the ex- 

 cluder, hive of brood, and supers (1892). The 

 brood was raised above an excluder and the 

 queen left below (1894). All the sealed 

 brood was raised (1895). 

 Langstroth and Others Kaised Brood Before 

 Demaree. 



Does it seem to any one that any of these 

 plans demands that we give Demaree the 



Old hive brood. 



New 

 into 



scends. 



hive of foundation 

 which queen de- 



Langstroth's Plan of 1865 

 for prevention of increase. 



credit for all plans involving the raising of 

 brood? If so, then we refer such a on© to 

 "Langstroth on the Honeybee," 1865, page 



