THE BEE-KEErERS' REVIEW. 



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swarm; and all colonies that are going to 

 swann will l^e shaken into new hives with 

 starters, setting the new hive on the old 

 stand and carrying the brood, with just 

 enough bees to protect it till the brood 

 hatches, to the new stand. This usually 

 "fixes" swarming as far as such colonies 

 are concerned. 



GET OUT OF THAT HAMMOCK. 

 Many seem to think that their bees 

 won't do well unless they sit in the 

 shade and watch them. This is all very 

 pleasant, but it's a mistake. Attend to 

 all the essential needs of the bees, furnish 

 them plent\- of room to store honey, keep 

 a nice clean entrance so the bees don't 

 have to go home on foot, then get out of 

 the hammock and go and attend to the 

 needs of some bees somewhere else, and 

 come back in a week and see how well 



the bees have done worrying along with- 

 out your watching them work. 



ADVANTAGES OF "SHOOK-SWARMS" 

 .\T OUT-APIARIES. 



I must confess that the longer I practice 

 the shaking-off-plan, when colonies are 

 going to swarm anyway, the better I like 

 it. Much has been said about a colony 

 of bees being a unit, and that we can 

 not sort them with proper regard to age, 

 but I find that is more in theory than in 

 practice I find little if any difference 

 between natural or shaken swarms that 

 are now two weeks old, and it's certainly 

 a great advantage in out-apiaries. Not 

 over 10 per cent, of my bees, that are in 

 eight-frame hives, are going to offer to 

 swarm this season. 



LongmonT. Colo. June 30, 1902. 





ARTIFICIAL INCREASE. 



BY ADRIAN GETAZ. 



We must Consider Temperature, Numbers, Honey- 

 Flow, and Division of Brood and Bees. 



¥HEN we decide to make artificial in- 

 crease, several conditions must nec- 

 essarily be considered. 



First, we must consider whether we 

 want only a small increase without les- 

 sening the surplus, or all the increase 

 possible without regard to surplus. 



THE INFl,UENCE OF TEMPERATURE. 



The influence of temperature depends 

 on the "locality" and the season of the 

 year. Too few bees cannot work at any 

 advantage. It takes all of them to keep 

 warm a very small patch of brood, and in 

 cool weather they might not be able to 

 raise any brood at all. 



WHY NUMBERS MUST BE CONSIDERED. 



In very warm weather, a small force 

 of bees, generously fed, can raise as much 



Preserve the unities — dickkns. 



brood as a normal colony does under or- 

 dinary circumstances. 



WHEN FEEDING M.\Y BE A BIG HELP. 



The colonies remaining on the old stand 

 and having the field forces, do not need 

 feeding if there is plenty of nectar in the 

 field; but it should be pleantiful. If 

 there is only a small flow, the building 

 up of the colony will be greatly acceler- 

 ated by moderate feeding. 



The new colonies should be fed plenti- 

 fullv , at least until they have a sufficient 

 field force. Granulated sugar should be 

 used, as it has but little odor, and. there- 

 fore, does not incite robbing. I have fed 

 some flour on two occasions, and, I think, 

 with profit, to colonies just made. I put 

 the flour in dry combs and hung the 

 combs in the colonies. 



