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June 1, 1905 



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MAtf neane mention Bee Juomal \raen 'wrlttnc 



up gradually as they yrow in strength, to 

 take care of the brood, and I have thought of 

 going through them each weeli to loolf for 

 queen-cells, and when I find them I will sup- 

 pose they are getting ready to swarm. Then 

 I shall divide them, giving one colony the 

 cells and the other the queen. And I have 

 thought of clipping the queens' wings so they 

 can not fly. 



4. Neighbor No. 1 had neighbor No. 2 trans- 

 fer a colony about the last of May from a log 

 hive into a frame hive with a comb where 

 other bees had died from starvation, but he 

 did not transfer the brood. The bees left the 

 hive, and No. 2 says the bees won't stay with- 

 out their brood. Is he right? Illinois. 



Answers. — 1. One way is to have queen- 

 traps on your hives, so the queen will be 

 caught when the bees swarm, and then you 

 can shake the bees on frames of foundation. 

 Another way is to go through your colonies 

 every 8 or 10 days, and shake the swarm when 

 you find queen-cells started. You may shorten 

 the labor by shaking the whole 8 colonies as 

 soon as one or two start queen-cells. 



2. I don't know. I only know that some- 

 times bees refuse to start queen-cells, espe- 

 cially those that have been queenless a long 

 time. When a colony is queenless early in 

 the season, it is generally better to break it 

 up than to try to have it rear a queen. If it 

 does succeed in rearing a queen she is very 

 likely to be worthless. 



3. It is all right to clip your laying queens 

 (of course not virgin queens), for then if a 

 colony attempts to go oil you can lose only 

 the queen, and not both queen and bees. You 

 can probably make your plan work all right. 

 Here's another way, one which will give you 

 increase and save watching for swarms: As 

 soon as the first colony starts queen-cells, go 

 to each colony, take away its queen with two 

 frames of brood and adhering bees, being sure 

 there is some honey in the frames, and put in 

 an empty hive on a new stand. A week later 

 take the old hive off its stand, and put in its 

 place the hive with the queen. Then divide 

 the old colony in two, and put each half on a 

 new stand (one of them may be put on the 

 stand from which you have just taken the 

 queen), being sure that each half has a good 

 queen-cell. If queen-cells are started in any 

 colonies before the queen is taken away, then 

 you must make the division sooner, or there 

 may be danger that a swarm will go oil with 

 a young queen. 



4. A colony transferred without brood is 

 more likely to desert than one with brood. If 

 he transferred the bees into the hive, and then 

 set the hive just where the log-hive had been, 

 the bees would stay ever so much better than 

 if he set the new hive in a new place. 



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