BEEKEEPING IN COLORADO 



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with a superabundance of drone comb in the hive. It will pay well U> 

 discard such combs completely and wire tiie frames properly and in- 

 sert fiill sheets of foundation. 



Large Brood Chamber : 



Many apiarists using the 

 eight or ten frame Langstroth 

 hive expand the brood cham- 

 ber by adding another story 

 for the queen as soon as the 

 first one restricts her laying. 

 Their plan, then, is to re- 

 strict the queen from the or- 

 iginal brood chamber again to 

 the lower storj^ with one 

 frame of brood at the begin- 

 ning of the first good flow 

 by means of the queen ex- 

 cluder and plaeing the re- 

 maining brood in the top hive 

 away from the queen to in- 

 sure the largest possible 

 breeding room under existing 

 conditions. 



Ventilation: The entrance 

 should be expanded to suit 

 the needs of the growing col- 

 ony. The beekeeper should 

 Figure 5— A colony should have the keep well ahead of his bees 



equivalent of three supprs (or stor- . . „■ ■,^ » ,, ■-,,■, 



age. giving finally a full width 



entrance. In the height of the honey flow and during intense heat 

 a two-inch entrance is not excessive. 



Young Vigorous Queens: It is evident that the desire to swarm is 

 generally stronger in colonies headed by old queens, so that young 

 queens aredesirable. A good poultryman seldom keeps a hen over one 

 year old for egg laying. So it is the same with the beekeeper in keep- 

 ing queens under two years old. 



Plenty of Storage Room: The beekeeper should provide plenty of 

 room for the storage of honey, otherwise the brood chamber will be- 

 come crowded with honej', thereby restricting the queen in her laying. 

 Adding another super when the one below is about half full is the 

 usual procedure. 



