MANIAGEMENT OF OUT-APIABIES 25 



plans or prevention of swarming. And as it not only does away with all 

 but a minimum amount of work, and also gives the greatest possible yield 

 of section honey, I claim that what is here given stands "heads and shoul- 

 ders" above any thing else in sight during the past or at the present lime, 

 especially in working an out-apiary for comb honey. ^ 



Hive No. 3, on row 2, contained what I considered my best breeder for 

 comb honey, and I had left it strong in bees and brood on the last \isit, 

 hoping it might make some preparation for swarming by the time 1 came 

 again, and when shaking it I found just what I wanted, which was queen- 

 cells with one or two day-old larvse in them, the larvae literally swimming 

 in royal jelly. 



The shaking of these combs was done more carefully than with the 

 others, for fear of dislodging the swimming larvse, although there is little 

 danger along this line until the royal laryse attain an age of four or fl\'e 

 days. This hive of beeless brood and queen-cells was placed on top of the 

 strongest colony not tiered on my third visit, and only this one hive of 

 brood was put on it, while the others had two and three hives each, as I 

 had 13 hives of brood to go on six colonies, hence taking only one for this 

 hive left 12 to go on the other fl\e not tiered before. Why I put no 

 other brood on this colony with these cells was because I wished these royal 

 larvEB given every possible advantage looking toward the best of queens. 

 I do not generally depend on queens or queen-cells from the out-apiary for 

 work therein, as I generally have more time and conveniences for rearing 

 them in the home yard, taking whatever I wish along this line with me at 

 each visit. But if we have a good breeding queen at the out-apiary, and 

 wish to use cells or queens from her brood, as was the case above, this tells 

 the reader how it can be done. 



EAST WAT TO REAR QUEENS. 



By the way, here' is an excellent plan for the amateur to raise queens 

 for use in his own apiary. When a colony having the best breeding-queen . 

 is found preparing to swarm by having queen-cells with from on'fe to four 

 day-old larvas in them, just, take the frames having these cells on them 

 and place them in an upper story over a strong colony having a f|ueen- 

 excluder under the upper hive, and see how nicely they will complete 

 them. When the queens are ready to euierge, set one of the frames having 

 a "ripe" cell on it, together with a frauie of honey, bees and all, into an 

 empty hive, and in ten or tAvelve days you will ha\'e a good nucleus with 

 a fine laying queen; and by treating all in the same way you can have as 

 many nuclei as you had cells. Then by giving frames of' brood from 

 other colonies to take the place of those taken from the best breeder she 

 will again have more queen-cells with larvee in them in a week or so, when 

 these in turn can be put on the strong colony over the excluder till the cells 

 are ripe, when more nuclei are made, and so on till we have all the "heat 

 of queens" we need. 



The reader is undoubtedly familiar with the truth advocated of late 

 years, that, if an extraeting-super is placed over a colony as soon as it 



1 This' is especially true in localities having a short and rapid honey flow. Where 

 the honey flow is longer and where there are two or three honey flows in succession 

 with but a short interval between, as in some parts of the West and South, requeen- 

 in^ with young queens after a period of queenlessness as described on pages 29 and 

 30 should -give better results. 



