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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 



2. How long should a colony be queenless 

 before giving them a frame of hrood contain- 

 ing a ripe queen-cell unprotected? 



3. Can I put the nursery containing queen- 

 cells in a colony having a laying (lueen? 



4. Will the bees care for the cells? 



5. Would you advise me to get a breeding 

 queen, or to use what I think the best I have? 

 Mine are mostly Italians, and I think I have 

 some good ones. ILINOIS. 



Answers. — 1. As a rule, what is the best 

 thing to do depends on circumstances. The 

 fact that 9 weak colonies were built up into 

 5G good ones is proof that the plan was good, 

 and under the circumstances probably no 

 other plan would have been better. The young 

 queens, being of best stock and reared in a 

 strong colony with abundance of nectar coming 

 in. should be of the best. 



2. Twenty-four hours would be well. 



3. Yes. 



4. No; the bees would likely want to destroy 

 the cells, but the nursery is supposed to pro- 

 tect them. 



5. Use the best you have, unless you are 

 pretty sure you can get something better. 



3. Put in one frame less than in the hive 

 body. 



4. Either way will do. We prefer to have 

 them in the shade. 



Running for Extracted Honey 



1. I have 40 stands of bees in S and 10-frame 

 hives that I have been running for comb honey 

 and this year I am changing to extracted 

 honey. I am going to use the shallow extract- 

 ing super, wired, and with full sheets of foun- 

 dation. Now will it be necessary to put a 

 queen excluder between the super and hive 

 body or not? 



2. What size extractor should I get if I in- 

 tend keeping about 1 00 stands right along? 



3. How many frames should I place in the 

 supers for surplus? 



4. Would it be best to place the hives in the 

 shade, or in the sun, to get the most surplus? 



IOWA. 



Answers. — Ves, with the S-frame. Not so 

 necessary with the 10-frame. 



2. Better get a 4-frame, but a 2-frame will 

 do. 



Starting With Bees 



1. I am just a beginner an<l have only 8 

 swarms and don't know much about them. 

 What should I do when I take them out of 

 the cellar? Should I open the hives and see 

 how much honey they have? 



2. Should I give them two bodies? 



3. I've bought a lot of new hives and am 

 going to put full foundations in all the frames. 

 How should I give them to the bees? 



4. I see you say not to put a new swarm in 

 a hive with all full sheets of foundation in the 

 hive. Should we put the bees in first and then 

 the frames with the foundation ? 



WISCONSIN. 



Answers. — 1. Take them out a warm day. 

 Better not open the hives the first day, as they 

 are more or less bewildered and may go to 

 robbing. If they do not have enough, feed 

 them. 



2. No, not early in spring. Wait till they 

 need more room. 



3. Yes, put foundation in the frames ahead 

 of need. 



4. You can do one of two or three ways. 

 Put two or three sheets of foundation in the 

 body of the hive by removing some of the 

 outer frames that have no brood. Or you can 

 put a second story with foundation in the 

 frames as soon as the crop opens, if the hives 

 are strong. Or, when your bees swarm you 

 can give them one or two combs from the 

 mother colony and put frames of foundation in 

 it in exchange. But don't put a swarm in a 

 hive without frames and guides for the bees to 

 follow. 



dation and a brood comb with honey. On 

 some*warm day in May I will i)ut a bee escape 

 over the hole. Do you think this will be a 

 good plan? Should they be supplied with a 

 'lueen ? Should the queen in the old hive be 

 killed in about 60 days after I put the bee es- 

 cape on? NEBRASKA. 



Answer. — Your plan will not work. You 

 would get only the field bees, and this would 

 deprive the colony of its resources without 

 getting the principal nest, the combs, brood, 

 ([ueen and young bees. 



If the colony is in a frame house, you should 

 be able to get to the combs by taking off 

 a few weather-boards. Then you could prob- 

 ably smoke the bees and queen out and hive 

 them j ust like a swarm. Then the combs 

 could be cut out and transferred as has often 

 been explained in these columns. In this way 

 you might get a valuable colony without too 

 much troul)le. Putting the hive, in which you 

 transfer them, close to the present location, 

 and shutting all means of getting back to the 

 house lining would control them. Then you 

 could move them to another spot, by giving 

 them a good smoking^ and drumming, some 

 morning early, and placing them in the se- 

 lected spot, with a slanting board in front of 

 the entrance, so they might know they are' in 

 another spot, before flying away to the fields. 

 Do all this when the weather is warm enough 

 for them to fly. 



Getting Bees Out of a House 



I have a swarm of bees in a house, but can't 

 get them out. I have an idea to put a hive 

 close to the entrance with full sheets of foun- 



Control Diseases 



I see they claim, in their advertisement 

 of aluminum honey comb, control of all dis- 

 eases. Please tell us how they do it. through 

 your question department. MINNESOTA. 



Answer. — By boiling it out. If it is done 

 carefully, the metal comb is still retained. 

 This refers to diseases in which it is neces- 

 sary to destroy the contents of the combs, such 

 as American foulbrood. 



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