1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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bees could move easier between lower 

 and iiyyer combs. Owiug to early cold 

 weather 1 did uot cover, but oue-balf 

 my hives with newspapers. Those 

 covered on four sides suffered most 

 from dysentery and dampness. Eight 

 colonies in cellar came out well, but 

 lost three from dwindling. 



I have concluded — judging from my 

 experience of this exceedingly hard 

 winter — that I shall next fall cover all 

 hives with four or iive thicknesses of 

 newspaper on east, north and west 

 sides of hive; but leave south side with 

 out. I live on a hill with no wind- 

 break. We have not known that there 

 was any foul brood near us, but one 

 new member reported that he has had 

 foul brood for -fifteen years only about 

 eighteen miles from Galesburg. In 

 fact foul brood killed all his bees about 

 ten years ago, so he had given up bee- 

 keeping, but last year bees came and 

 took up their abode iu his hives so he 

 now has sixteen colonies. Bees showed 

 no sign of disease last fall but this 

 spring one colony shows disease. We 

 shall endeavor to wipe out the disease 

 if possible. 



Our meeting was very interesting 

 and all members felt well repaid for 

 coming. We are gradually adding new 

 members, in fact one man sent mem- 

 bership fee and asked to join although 

 he lives in an adjoining state ilowa). 

 So Ave have begun to feel real proud 

 of our new association. Gatesbu'— is 

 a town of about 20,000 population, sev- 

 eral railroads and several suburban 

 street car lines so that people can 

 reach that point conveniently. We 

 voted to join the National Association 

 in a body. Onr next meeting will be 

 at the court house on the third Tues- 

 day of September, litO-t. 



All bee-keepers within reach of 

 Galesburg should attend. All are cord- 

 ially invited. 



Williamsfield, 111., May 10, 1904. 



ANTICIPATED SW^ ARMING. 



By Adrian Getaz. 



WHAT we call here now "brush- 

 ed" or "shook" swarms are 

 called in Europe "anticipated"' 

 swarms. Two methods have been in 

 use there for quite a number of years. 

 The first is called anticipated swarm- 

 ing by single permutation. It is ex- 



actly the process used here and needs 

 not to be described. The second is 

 much the best and is called anticipated 

 swarming by double permutation. 



To explain it as clearly as possible, 

 let us suppose that the apiary contains 

 only two hives and an unoccupied 

 stand thus. 

 Hive No. 1. Hive No. 2. 



Stand No. 1. Stand No. 2. Stand No. 3. 



When the time to operate comes the 



hive No. 2 is placed on stand No. 3. 



The queen and all the bees of hive No. 



1 are driven out and put in a new hive 

 on their own stand. They constitute 

 a swarm just in the same condition as 

 those made by single permutation. The 

 hive No. 1 thus deprived of its bees 

 and queen is then placed on stand No. 



2 and receive there the ifield bees of 

 the hive No. 2. We have then: 



Swarm Hive No. 1. Hive No. 2. 



Stand No. 1. Stand No. 2. Stand No. 3. 



Eight days later the hive No. 1 being 

 without queen, will have a number of 

 queen cells. It is then put on stand 

 No. 3 and the hive No. 2. brought back 

 to its place. We have finally: 



Swarm. Hive No. 2. Hive No. 1. 



Stand No. 1. Stand No. 2. Stand No. 3. 



Now for the advantages of this 

 method: The swarm on stand No. 1 is 

 in the same condition as those obtain- 

 ed by single permutation. But the 

 hive No. 2 on stand No. 2 will give a 

 much greater stn-plus than would a 

 forced swarm. It has had a field force 

 and a brood nest all the time. Having 

 not to rebuild a brood nest it can work 

 in the surplus boxes much more than 

 a forced swarm; and finally the ab- 

 sence of its queen during the eight 

 days that the brood nests were ex- 

 changed, has killed the swarming fe- 

 ver completely. 



As to the hive No. 1. now on a new 

 stand, it has no field force, has lost a 

 large number of emerging bees while 

 it was on stand No. 2 and will requeen 

 out of its queen cells without danger 

 of swarming. 



This method is the invention of Mr. 

 De Vignole, of Belgium. I might add 

 here that there is no hunting of queen 

 and no queen cells to cut out when us- 

 ing it. 



Knoxvllle. Tenn. 



Tell others of your successes and 

 failures and the reasons. 



