THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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Sec tliiit all drone (-(Hiil) is i-enioved 

 from the brood chaiuher and worker 

 tomb is put in its place. 



Don't stand ten minutes for a little 

 ee to net out of the way for fear he 



ight iict hint. Let some thin.t>s re- 



jiin a secret to the iminisitive nciiih- 



)r. 



A cloth liijhtly saturated with cai-- 

 30lic acid or iceroseue will hustle ihe 

 jees out of the snper..-^. Bait sections 

 n the supers are a little gold mine to 

 )ee-keepers. 



Have the honey house at the south 

 ;ide of the yard facing north. You 

 an see the liees much more readily. 



shaken swarm, and after a few days 

 more, anotiicr. When buckwlu>at time 

 ai-rived all the brood had hatched 

 from these combs and the young 

 queen was laying. The hive coutnlned. 

 by this time a large amount of young, 

 \igoio-s Ix'c;, which, when comfined 

 ti) only one brood-chamber iind a sec- 

 tion < use, were ready to begin work 

 at once. I have had veiy good results 

 by ti-eating i)arent colonies in tliis 

 way. 



Hive .")o!) had been shaken early and 

 had given me 4S sections oif nice white 

 honey. 'I'he third set of sections were 

 not finished when tlie clover season 



NOT GILT-EDGED, BUT TRIMMED WITH BUCKWHEAT. 



'A GOOD SCHEME." 



Profitable Manipulation of Parent Stocks. 



By F. Greiner. 



rHE ACCOMPANYING photo 

 shoiws a part of my apiary at 

 tlie beginning of the buclvwheat 

 >ney season. 



I want the reader to especially take 

 'tice of hive No. 7G. It contains a 

 lony which had cast a swarm in the 

 rly ]»art of the season and had been 

 i'ated a la Heddon. Afterwards it re- 

 ived one set of brood combs from a 



closed. It was left on the hive tO' be 

 finished with buckwheat. This is not 

 generally recommended, but a-s it les- 

 sens the work and the result is just as 

 satisfactory, I am loth to expend un- 

 nei-es,sary labcr removing partly filled 

 su])ers. As the season turned out the 

 partly filled super was completed, but 

 not very much more work was done in 

 the fourth set of sections. The buck- 

 wheat reason wa* too near a failure 

 with us. In an average season the 

 four supers would have been filled 

 frcan that source. 



Naples, New York., Jan. 30. 1905. 



