GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



One of J. M. Buchanan's outyards standing on the site of an old Yankee fort near Franklin, Tenn. 



swarm is of no use. Now, if one does not 

 wa'.it any increase, leave this old liive by the 

 new one; and, after the flow is over, work 

 the old queen-hive into the new queen-hive. 



If I wait a little too late I use the paper 

 plan of uniting, killing the old queen first. 

 The best plan is to i-emove all the brood 

 from the old queen to the new one every 

 fifteen days as long as there is brood to 

 move, for tlie old queen and bees are worth- 

 less, as they are all old, and the hive with 

 the young queen is sure to winter, for the 

 bees are all young, and there are plenty of 

 them. The old hive and combs may be used 

 the next year. These plans are applicable 

 to a home yard rather than to an outyard, 

 unless the out-apiary happens to be witliin 

 a few miles of home. 



If one has more bees than he wants to 

 winter, he should double up, following the 

 paper plan. If he has a choice of queens 

 he should kill the undesirable one. If he 

 has no choice, he should pay no attention 

 to the queens. The bees will take care of 

 that part of it. In southern Indiana I win- 



ter them in two ten-frame stories, and they 

 are boiling over with bees when the flow 

 comes — about May 20. 



Put all of the brood and bees into one 

 liive, and put on one super of sections with 

 full sheets of foundation, and another on 

 top of this with drawn combs or one super. 

 Just as soon as the bees begin to draw out 

 the founda;:.:, raise it up and put another 

 under it. If the brood-chamber is not full 

 of brood, use only one super; but in ordei- 

 to secure the best results it should be full. 

 Put an excluder on some of the weak colo- 

 nies, and stack the emjoty combs on them 

 about three to the hive, for use later on, for 

 part of these colonies will swarm within ten 

 or twelve days. 



One should put the sealed brood in the 

 center of the hive — that is, if he has a hive 

 full. If not, he should put empty combs in 

 the center. If sealed brood is placed in the 

 center, as soon as the brood hatches the 

 queen will fill the cells with eggs and put 

 more honey in the super. If one does not 

 put eggs and unsealed brood on the outside. 



