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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



AN INTRUDING COLONY OF HONEYBEES 



BY EDWARD F. BIGELOW 



Recently a swarm of honeybees came out 

 and alig-hted on a tree. I put them in a 

 Pearl Agnes hive, but it was evidently too 

 small for them. I added a second super 

 story, making three stories in all. Then the 



A pair of swarms. 



hive was taken from under the tree and 

 placed on a box in the apiaiy. 



The next forenoon another swarm came 

 out and alighted on a fence in a direction 



oi:)posite that of the tree on which the first 

 colony had settled. I placed a hive under 

 the cluster, shook it off, and most of the 

 bees started to enter the hive, but, as usual, 

 a large number remained flying. Then some 

 one gave the alarm- 

 ing cry, "Another 

 swarm is coming 

 out !" Sure enough, 

 the air was filled 

 with bees that were 

 pouring out of the 

 Pearl Agnes hive, 

 which they were de- 

 serting, probably be- 

 cause it was too small 

 or T had not put it in 

 a place shady enough 

 This Pearl Agnes 

 colony moved off over 

 the other swarm,now 

 about half in the 

 hive. The flying bees 

 of both colonies 

 seemed to become 

 confused; and the 

 second colony, in- 

 stead of clustering, 

 went directly into the 

 hive, thus filling that 

 hive to overflowing. 

 There seemed to be 

 a little "scrap" 

 among them, not on- 

 ly in that afternoon 

 but all the next day 

 after the hive had been removed to the 

 stand, the result being many dead bees. But 

 now, in the words of the old-fashioned nov- 

 el, they are living happily ever after. 

 Arcadia, Sound Beach, Ct. 



HONEY WITHOUT INCREASE 



BY G. W. JOICE 



I have been successful in both the home 

 and out yards with the following method of 

 securing a crop of honey every year without 

 making any increase unless I wish it. The 

 system is not of my own invention, but here 

 it is just as I use it. 



During feeding, (he bees are all at the 

 home yard. 1 lake them to the outyard 

 about May 20, and then put on the honey- 

 board and second full-depth story. I use a 

 Boardman feeder for spring stimulation 

 and feed every evening jibout synset a hjilf 



to a full pint of sugar syrup, a one-to-one 

 mixture, lukewarm. As the bees come out of 

 the cellar about the first week of April, and 

 the white clover begins to bloom the first 

 week in June, T have rousing colonies by 

 that time. Preparations for swarming be- 

 gin about May 15 to 20, or pi-actically as 

 early as settled warm weatlier begins. When 

 I find eight or more frames containing 

 brood in a ten-frame hive I remove the 

 parent hive and place a hive containing 

 combs or foundation on the old stand ; select 



