THE AMERICAN BEEKEEPER. 



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amount of section room to suit the size 

 of the colony, and thus secure the 

 most af your honey in a salable form. 

 Borodino, N. Y. 



The Wood-Zinc Queen Ex- 

 cluder.— How to Con- 

 struct and use it. 



BY D B . G . L . TINKKE. 



(Continued from February Number.) 



In the use of the brood board it was 

 explained in my last article that very 

 few of the sections would be travel- 

 stained if we placed all of the brood 

 of a colony above the sections, which 

 is the leading feature of my new sys- 

 tem of management as described in 

 my new book, in the control of all 

 swarms, so as to prevent increase and 

 hold the entire working force of a 

 colony together. The system has giv- 

 en immense and surprising results in 

 the practice of a large number of bee- 

 keepers who have reported on the re- 

 sults of the past season. The practice 

 has been, and may be considerably 

 varied from the directions given in 

 the book, but enough has been re- 

 ported to fully awaken all classes of 

 bee-keepers to a superior system 

 of management that may be carried 

 out to advantage on nearly all the 

 hives in general use ; but how is it 

 possible to equal the grand results 

 to be obtained on the two-story hive 

 recommended ? 



In the use of the two-story hive of 

 small, shallow brood-chambers we get 

 both stories full of brood as advised 

 by the time the honey flow begins. 

 We then place a queen-excluder and 

 a case of sections upon the first story, 

 and the second story of brood we place 

 on top of the sections with the queen 

 in the lower story, This practice also 



results in the attaching of no burr- 

 combs to the queen-excluder or to the 

 brood-frames, leaving all parts of the 

 hive clean and free to handle at will. 

 In the use of the sections in this man- 

 ner, it is found that they will not be 

 travel-stained unless they are kept on 

 the hive some time, after being finish- 

 ed. The brood-board may, however, 

 be used as described if necessary, in 

 which case we shall get less honey in 

 the second story and more in the sec- 

 tions. If we leave off the brood-board 

 we will get the upper story sealed 

 solid with honey at the same time that 

 we get more section honey than can 

 be obtained by any other procedure 

 now known, provided the stories or 

 brood chambers used are not larger 

 than the one recommended, which 

 contains 830 square inches of brood 

 comb. Here is where all the economy 

 and profit of tne new system comes in. 

 First, we are enabled to get an im- 

 mense colony and a great quantity of 

 brood just before the honey flow be- 

 gins. The bees are allowed to swarm 

 but we are able to keep them all to- 

 gether and turn all to the greatest 

 possible advantage by setting all the 

 bees to work under the well-known 

 energy of the young swarm. By the 

 use of the queen-excluder we turn all 

 of this energy to the storing of honey, 

 and prevent the rearing of needless 

 brood to hatch out and become con- 

 sumers after the harvest is passed. 



The second story of sealed honey 

 that we get by this system may be 

 left for the bees for winter, or it may 

 be extracted. If we use the brood 

 board we shall get enough honey in it 

 so that with what is gathered from 

 fall flowers there will be usually 

 enough for winter. 



