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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Removing Honey from Brood- 

 Combs to tlie {Sections. 



Query 869.— I frequently have more 

 noney iu brood-combs than I wish to extract, 

 not having good sale for it. Is there any 

 profitable way of inducing the bees to store 

 me honey fi-om these frames in sections, with- 

 out extracting it ?— N. H. 



I think not. — Jas. A. Green. 



I do not knovi'. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



If so, I am not aware of it. — P. H. 

 Elwood. 



"Contract" and crowd. — Will M. 

 Barnum. 



I have had no experience in this kind 

 of work. — A. B. Mason. 



Why not feed it in the spring, then 

 run all for comb ? — C. C. Miller. 



No, sir. Extract and dilute with one- 

 fifth water, and feed back. — Mrs. J. N. 

 Heater. 



If I were going to get the honey in 

 sections, I would extract it and then 

 feed it to the bees. — E. France. 



It might be done by restricting the 

 brood-nest and uncapping the cells, and 

 putting the combs between combs of 

 brood. — M. Mahin. 



Not that I know of. I have never 

 found it profitable for bees to handle 

 honey the second time in any way. — 

 Emerson T. Abbott. 



If the bees are storing in the supers, 

 they will sometimes carry the honey 

 from the brood-combs, above, if we un- 

 cap them. — A. J. Cook. 



I have never found any such way, and 

 I doubt whether honey can be fed back 

 at a profit. Keep these frames to use in 

 impoverished colonies. — J. E. Pond. 



I have never tried it, but would think 

 if they stored "sugar syrup" when 

 placed out for them, they would do the 

 same by the combs mentioned. — Jas. A. 

 Stone. 



After it is stored in frames it is 

 cheaper and better to extract ; and if it 

 is slow sale in your home market, ship 

 to a better one, provided you cannot 

 work up a home market. — H. D. Cut- 

 ting. 



I don't know. If you put two combs 

 in the center of each hive into which 

 you put a swarm, the bees would prob- 

 ably carry most of it into the sections, if 

 honey was coming in pretty well. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



Use your judgment, and don't have 

 too many combs left, and use what you 

 do have left for spring feeding. There 

 is nothing better. Such work as is pro- 

 posed above is at least not advisable. — 

 J. H. Larrabee. 



I don't 'know of any. But I should 

 take steps to prevent a like occurrence 

 in the future, by contracting the hive. 

 Get the honey stored in sections instead 

 of in brood-frames where you don't want 

 it. — Eugene Secor. 



N. H. should prevent the bees from 

 storing so much honey in brood-combs. 

 It will be found more profitable to do 

 this than to try to get the bees to uncap 

 their honey and put it where they do not 

 want it. — G. L. Tinker. 



I know of no sure way of inducing 

 bees to remove honey from comb in the 

 hive to the sections. Shaving the cap- 

 ping off does not always succeed, as the 

 bees frequently only cap it over again. 

 Better extract and feed. — C. H. Dibbern. 



You can, by placing the combs in a 

 box or hive in front of the entrance of a 

 colony that is working in the sections. 

 Communication between colony and 

 combs must be managed so that no rob- 

 bers can get at them. — J. P. H. Brown. 



Not that I know of, unless you can 

 call the changing of this honey into 

 young bees, and having more bees to 

 gather an extra amount from the fields 

 and store it in the sections, a profitable 

 way of using that honey. I call this a 

 profitable way to use such honey, but 

 perhaps others would not. — G. M. Doo- 



LITTLE. 



I can't say about the profit part, but 

 you can get your strong swarms to take 

 the honey out of the combs by hanging 

 them, a few at a time, in an extra hive, 

 set under the brood-nest of those you 

 wish to feed. It will hasten matters 

 somewhat If the lower hive has more 

 light than the upper hive, by using a 

 piece of glass. — S. I. Freeborn. 



No. Should such a condition occur in 

 my hives, I would leave the honey in the 

 "brood-combs" until spring, and these 

 full combs would help to put the brood- 

 nest in condition early in the season, 

 and I would get the more surplus by it. 

 I don't see how your "brood-combs," in 

 the breeding season, where most of 

 them ought to be filled with brood, could 

 contain a great amount of honey. But 

 such a state of things might occur In the 



