1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



513 



changing ends with a comb of brood in each 

 so as to secure brood the full length of the 

 frames. From the strongest I take out a 

 comb of brood (I prefer hatching), and give 

 it to the weakest ones, in this way equaliz- 

 ing all. 



At this time I take out the division-boards 

 given the previous visit, returning either 

 empty combs or combs of honey as their 

 needs demand. 



When a majority have some brood in all 

 five combs I take two hives and set them in 

 place of each double colony with their en- 

 trances corresponding as nearly as possible 

 to the double colony. Transfer each queen 

 and the frames into the new hive, and give 

 five more frames of either honey or comb as 

 their needs demand. These may be given 

 all at once, or a frame or two at a time, just 

 as long as they receive room and food enough 

 so that brood-rearing 

 will go on at a rapid 

 rate. Whenever these 

 colonies need more 

 room, give it until the 

 flow is expected in a 

 day or two. 



At this point, if I 

 wish no increase I de- 

 stroy both queens in 

 these two colonies, and 

 in one or two days 

 unite them, stacking 

 one story above anoth- 

 er, giving either a ripe 

 queen-cell or young 

 laying queen previous- 

 ly reared from my best 

 stock, and confine her 

 by a queen- excluder 

 to the lower story, 

 which I have arrang- 

 ed with five frames of 

 brood — mostly the 

 young larvae — and five 

 sheets of foundation 

 or empty comb, alter- 

 nating them. This is 

 as I arrange them 



when run for extracted honey. If I wish 

 increase I take one good frame of hatching 

 brood and adhering bees with their queen, 

 placing them in another hive, giving at first 

 a partly filled comb of honey and another 

 empty comb with a division-board follower, 

 contracting the entrance to a one-bee space. 

 These nuclei will build up to good strong 

 colonies for wintering, if room is given as 

 needed. In this way you get two nuclei, 

 each having a laying queen and eighteen or 

 more frames of brood and bees at the right 

 time to secure a surplus from clover or bass- 

 wood. 



By giving a ripe queen-cell or young lay- 

 ing queen to the large queenless colony I 

 have never had one swarm. However, I 

 would remove all other cells at the time of 

 giving a queen or cell. This method, slight- 

 ly modified, could be adopted for comb hon- 

 ey, though I have always considered it more 

 profitable to produce extracted. 



Figures 2 and 3 show colonies the 17th 

 of June, 1905, that yielded from one hundred 

 to two hundred pounds per colony this poor 

 season, when the average in the vicinity 

 did not exceed thirty pounds; and nine col- 

 onies, the nearest to me, run on the or- 

 dinary method, did not yield as much 

 surplus as my poorest one run on the above 

 method. 



The secret of producing more honey lies 

 in being able to produce more bees at the 

 right time and of the right kind rather than 

 the keeping of more colonies run on the 

 "let-alone" method, as some have advo- 

 cated. 



The foregoing is the method as adapted 

 to the ten-frame hive of standard style. In 

 another article we will describe a hive better 

 adapted to this two-queen system. 



Madison, Wis. 



FIG. 3. — PART OF THE APIARY OF A. K. FERRIS. 



BEES AND POULTRY COMBINED. 



The Success of Each Depends Upon the Care 

 Given. 



BY A. A. ZIEMER. 



As I am deeply interested in bees as well 

 as fancy poultry, and kept both with great 

 success for years. I must say that the arti- 

 cle by Frank McGlade has held my attention 

 more than any other in that number. The 

 pictures were studied closely, which, as he 

 sajs, were not overdrawn — probably not; 

 and if they were not, it surely does not look 

 as if there were the right man behind to 

 give the birds their care. The way they are 

 tearing around him it looks as if they were 

 kept on a fast for a week or two. 



Now, I don't quite agree with Mr. McGlade 

 the way he runs down the busy old hen 

 that keeps laying right along in all parts of 



