1907. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



71 



the swarming done between the loth 

 and 20th of May. 



Let A represent a colony ready to 

 swarm and occupying the stand No. i. 

 B, a weak colony or one among the 

 weakest of the apiary occupying the 

 stand No. 2. No. 3 and No. 4 are 

 empty stands, thus: 

 A B 



No I No 2 No 3 No 4 

 A swarms and gives a swarm, S, 

 which is placed on the old stand, the 

 parent colony is placed on the stand 

 of B and receives the field force of 

 B. B is placed on a new one; say 

 stand No. 3. Then there is: 

 ' S A B 



No I No 2 No 3 No 4 

 About ten days later, the colony A 

 swarms again. The sw^rm, a second 

 swarm with a young queen, we can 

 call it SS, is placed on stand No. 2, 

 from which it came. The colony A 

 takes again the place of B, and B is 

 removed further, on to stand No. 4. 

 He finally has 



S SS A B 



No 3 No 4 

 will ever swarm 



No I No 2 



None of them 

 again that year. 



In the middle of June, the heaviest 

 of the old colonies having swarmed, 

 are harvested or taken up and put in 

 new hives. If necessary two or three 

 are united to obtain strong colonies, 

 for they have to rebuild their combs. 

 The wax is very valuable in Europe. 

 Furthermore, Mr. Havard wants to 

 renew his combs often; every year if 

 possible. 



The colonies that have not swarmed 

 or have not been removed from the 

 original stand and are strong enoug*h 

 to swarm, are now swarmed artificial- 

 ly and the swarms lodged in some of 

 the hives with combs, from which the 

 bees have been driven out. 



All this must be done by the mid- 



dle of June. If between then and the 

 middle of July, there is a dearth of 

 nectar, feeding is resorted to, so that 

 the colonies may be strong enough 

 to go to the heath region with ad- 

 vantage at that date. 



When they come back, the heaviest 

 colonies may be taken up, but Mr. 

 Havard chooses as far as possible 

 the first swarms and the colonies dis- 

 placed at swarming times. 



That leaves him to go into winter 

 quarters, chiefly with colonies having 

 young queens and new combs. To 

 tliis and to the spring feeding, he 

 attributes his remarkable success. — 

 L'Abeille et sa Culture. 



To those overheated by exercise or 

 sick with the fever, a doctor recom- 

 mends the following drink: Boiling 

 water one pint, bi-tartrate one-seventh 

 of an ounce, honey three good spoon- 

 fuls. Mix and stir well and let cool. — 

 La Gazette Apicole. 



LARVAL DEVELOPMENT INFLUENCED 

 BY FOUNDATION. 



Some ten years ago, Mr. Boyer 

 (deceased) presented some bees from 

 the province of Burgundy that were 

 notably larger than the ordinary bees. 

 An examina.tion of their combs show- 

 ed that the cells were larger than 

 those of the common bees. Needless 

 to say that these combs were built 

 entirely by the bees and not on foun- 

 dation. Some French and Belgian 

 bee-keepers suggested that by making 

 foundation with larger cells, the size 

 of the bees could be increased. Mr. 

 Pincot, at the time, stoutly denied 

 the possibility of any such thing. But 

 lately he found that he was mistaken. 

 When the Italian bees were intro- 

 duced in France, Germany, etc., the 

 remark was made at once, that they 

 were larger than the blacks. At that 

 time foundation was still unknown or 

 rather very seldom used, and' the bees 



