JULY 15, 1915 



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The Pciirl A^iul-^ 



uiJ Pearl Agnes, after whom the hive was named. — Photo by Edward F. Bigelow. 



a frame of brood containing the queen and 

 young larvae from the parent hive, clipping 

 her at the time, and placing her on the comb 

 of brood. 1 put the queen with the one 

 frame of brood in the middle of the new 

 hive on the old stand; place a queen-ex- 

 cluding honey-board on the new hive (I use 

 I he wood and 7-wire board), and the old 

 liive on tliis after destroying all the queen- 

 cells. 



In seven or eight days I look the upper 

 hive through for queen-cells and destroy 

 them. If I wish some comb honey I place 

 a super between the two hives when white 

 clover begins to bloom, and a week or ten 

 days later I put it on top of both hives. The 

 reason for first putting it between the hives 

 is to get the bees to draw out the sections, 

 and the reason for putting them on top is to 

 keep them white. After the brood is all 

 hatched from the upper hive the bees will 

 store it full of honey, which may be taken 

 with tlie extractor and the hive put away 

 to use the following year. In this way the 

 queen is furnished plenty of room to lay, 

 the bees are given plenty of storage room 

 and an abundance of brood, which, by stim- 

 ulative feeding, is here in time to take ad- 

 vantage of the white-clover flow. I find 



that I gain about 40 lbs. of extracted honey 

 per colony, and secure about 201 lbs. more 

 fancy comb honey per colony than where I 

 do not follow tliis system, besides eliminat- 

 ing 98 per cent of the swarming nuisance. 



WINTERING A SUP.PLUS OF QUEENS. 



A couple of years ago I had a few short 

 articles in Gleanings in regard to winter- 

 ing a surplus of laying queens in one clus- 

 ter without division-boards or queen-ex- 

 cluders. I have this very day two queens 

 that laid eggs together last season working 

 in harmony this season. I feel that there is 

 no secret to it that I may keep from my 

 fellow-beemen. But there is this : I some- 

 times fail, and cannot understand why, 

 when at other times I succeed fully under 

 like circumstances, conditions, and manipu- 

 lations. I have wintered successfully as 

 many as fourteen laying queens (all of the 

 same season's rearing) in one colony. These 

 colonies are always wintered in the cellar. 

 I wish other readci'S would tiy the experi- 

 ment and report. 



The gross receipts from my two yards are 

 about $10 per colony. I also farm 80 acres 

 of land. My bees are certainly great reve- 

 nue-getters. 



Edon, Ohio. _ 



