THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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ficient surplus room to last until the end 

 of the season. 



You see. 1 have made only three visits 

 since putting the bees out of the cellar. 



1 have no weak colonies to fuss with 

 after this time of the year, and have com- 

 pelled the bees to meet my requirements 

 instead of my being; compelled to meet 

 theirs. 



Of course, there is always a certain 

 element of uncertainty to be reckoned on. 

 but if the season has been favorable for 

 buildin,§- up until July 15th, and there 

 comes an August flow as is nearly al- 

 ways the case here in Colorado, and. as I 

 suppose, there is in Northern Michigan. 



with its fireweed and buckwheat, an 

 apiary managed on the above plan will 

 close the season with as much surplus 

 honey as the one where all ;^warming has 

 been kept down, and the owner would 

 have the increase clear, less the cost of 

 supplies. 



THE GLORY OF TRIUMPH. 



1 tell you its just fun to get an apiary 

 nearly up to the swarming pitch, and 

 then shake the fever all out of the bees, 

 yes, and yourself too. Why, I feel, as 1 

 imagine the fellow does when he is given 

 the decision in a prize fight; at least, I 

 feel as though I am IT. 



LoNGMONT. Colo.. .Jan. 15. 1906. 



Producing- Both Gomb and Extracted 

 Honey in the Same Apiary 



G. W. M'GUIRE. 



^V-T the beginning of the season I prepare 

 -f^ my hives although 1 were going to take 

 one big crop of extracted honey. Each 

 colony is stimulated to as strong a point 

 •3.7jvsible. A queen-excluder is put on 

 an^. ... "-■^iQritiS^cijvL'.sted. Now. 1 just let 

 bees store all th^^nsy tjie^ ji'.ish in these 

 upper stories before they swarm— tne 

 more the better. 



When a colony swarms. 1 just hive it in 

 this top story, which we will presume is 

 full of honey, placing it on the old stand, 

 and setting the old hive a few feet back 

 with the entrance turned in the opposite 

 direction. 



Now. the whole field-force is turned 

 into this swarm which has the old queen, 

 eight frames of honey, and no brood. We 

 now place on this hive one, two, or three 

 section supers, according to the size of 

 the swarm. 



The first instinct of the bees will be to 

 prepare a place for rearing brood by 

 moving honey from the brood combs to 



the sections. At tlie same time there is 

 a rush of honey from the fields, and all 

 going just where wp want it, into the 

 boxes. 



After a day or two we will turn the 

 old hive around alongside of the swarm, 

 with the entrance in the same direction 

 as that of the swarm. 



In about' ten days we move it over to 

 the other side, giving a new influx of bees 

 to the swarm; then, provided no increase 

 is wanted, at the end of 21 days, when 

 all the brood is hatched, shake all the 

 bees in front of the swarm. There will 

 doubtless be a young queen just begin- 

 ning to lay; let her go right in, and nine 

 times out of ten she will be retained and 

 the old one destroyed. 



If increase is desired, then, after ten 

 days, instead of moving the old hive to 

 the other side of the swarm, take it to a 

 new location and allow the colony to build 

 up for winter. 



Dark Ridge, N. C. June 9, 1905. 



