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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



y[A\-, 1917 



HEAPS OF GRAINI PPQIOT DIFFE RE NT FIELDS 



Management for 

 Swarm -control in 

 Comb Honey 

 Production 



We clip our queens at 

 the time of the fruit 

 blossoms, and give an 

 extra story of ex- 

 tracting - frames t o 

 liold back swarming. When the flow of 

 white-clover honey comes we ' ' shake ' ' colo- 

 nies preparing to swarm or let them swarm; 

 cage the queen found before the hive, and 

 ]ilace the cage in the entrance on the bottom- 

 board. 



When the bees return, or several days later 

 if we do not have the time, we move the 

 colony to be "shaken" from its stand, and 

 ])lace an empty hive-body with the bottom- 

 board on the stand. We take the two out- 

 side combs from the old colony, containing 

 mostly pollen and honey, and put them in the 

 empty hive-body. Between them we place 

 four frames of full sheets of wired found- 

 ation. Four dummies (boards the size of 



frames) complete the brood-chamber. Over 

 this we place a queen-excluder, and on it set 

 one or more supers of sections with "baits" 

 in one super. We shake the bees from the 

 eight remaining frames, hive-body, and bot- 

 tom-boards, before this prepared hive, let- 

 ting the queen run in with the bees, and 

 then place the eight frames of brood over a 

 weak colony to be run for extracting, cutting 

 out the queen-cells, and, six days later, cut- 

 ting cells again. 



By this method we get four frames built, 

 all worker cells; all the honey is forced 

 above, and the pollen is deposited below. 

 The bees do not make any preparations to 

 swarm again until the late flow of honey. 

 After the honey-flow we give them four 

 frames of honey in place of dummies, and 

 this stimulates the queen to lay for late 

 lioney-flow, and to build up with young bees 

 for winter. 



Brownstown, Ind. D. F. Rankin. 



0)ch.y 



Jimmy Peachhud says in all his experience, and lie has handled hybrids, blacks, yellow jackets and 

 hornets, that he never got stung as bad as he did the time he traded a hive of Italians for a poodle pup. 



