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American Agriculturist, August 23, 1924 
When Bees Swarm 
Fall Pasture for Bees—Save Their Wings 
O matter how 
^ ^ much you try to 
prevent swarming by giving room the 
bees will sometimes refuse to stay at 
home. This picture was taken just the 
day before the smaller hive swarmed. 
Look how they are clustering out. Bees 
usually do this and I was intending to 
stop their swarming by shaking them in 
a few minutes when they started coming 
out. It was in the morning and I was 
expecting they would wait until after¬ 
noon. They were accommodating enough 
to cluster on a low apple-tree limb where 
we quickly returned them to a new hive 
on the old stand. They were in a ten 
frame hive and had a super of the same 
size given early but persisted in swarming 
anyway. The eleven frame deep hive 
By L. H.iCOBB 
Just Before They Swarmed 
beside it did not offer to swarm during 
the whole season. 
When bees swarm in spite of precau¬ 
tions, or where you allow them to swarm, 
I think the best plan is to hive them in a 
new hive on the old stand and put the 
old hive above them with its own bottom- 
board, so it will have a distinctive 
entrance. After a week the upper hive 
may be removed to a new location and 
allowed to build up, for most of the field 
bees from both will stay with the old 
stand and it will be in good producing 
condition. If you have used foundation 
in the new hive you can safely wait longer 
before removing the upper hive, for the 
bees in the lower will not have filled it 
so soon unless very active. The longer 
the old hive is above the more bees from 
it will stay with the new, and it is in the 
new hive the bees will count in honey 
production. 
Young Queen Helps Colony 
It is possible to strengthen the new 
colony still more and provide them with 
a young queen, which will help keep 
them from swarming again, by taking the 
old queen on a frame of her brood and 
bees and putting in another new hive 
elsewhere with part of the brood from the 
upper hive, and then putting two sheets 
of newspaper over the hive on the old 
stand and setting the original hive on it 
direct. By the time the bees gnaw 
through this they will accept the young 
queen above, as they will know their own 
queen is gone. Be sure that there is a 
young queen above that is laying before 
you make the change, for if not a strong 
colony like this will be pretty sure 
to swarm with a virgin queen on her 
wedding flight, especially if she hatches 
after the uniting and can leave a queen 
cell behind. If she is laying there will 
ae almost no more danger of swarming 
;hat season. The colony as united will 
lave nearly all the worker bees of both 
lives, but the old queen will build up a 
good colony out of the bees given her by 
"all if the summer is a fair one. 
* * * 
Fall Pasture for Bees 
TT does not pay to sow any plant es- 
-*• pecially for bee pasture, it lias been 
demonstrated by experiments, except in 
the fall when the pasture has a value 
far greater than the honey secured. If 
bees do not have some honey coming 
into the hives during the fall months course, this is more applicable to a 
they will quit rearing brood and if they State road carrying more or less traffic, 
do this the bees that go into the winter where an object display such as this 
will be old and before spring they die off creates more attention than a mere sign. 
so badly that th 
colonies will beeom 
very weak and often die out entirely. 
If buckwheat or some other late blooming 
crop is provided it will keep them gather 
ing some honey and they rear young 
bees until frost. Every bee counts big 
in the spring. 
* * * 
Save the Bees’ Wings 
n n> you know that the worker bees 
actually twear their wings out in 
summer? You can hasten this if you 
make them fly close to a wire, through 
a wire fence, or through a forest of weeds 
and grass straws. Their wings are very 
delicate and I have seen bees strike a 
wire and fall, which is veryVapt to tear 
a wing, and once torn it is never repaired. 
The front of the hive should be kept 
clear for a yard or so distant, and never 
should hives face a fence even several 
yards away unless it is covered with a 
vine or something else to prevent their 
seeing through it readily and trying to 
fly through. 
Adventuring in Beekeeping 
T KNOW a man who has a considerable 
apple orchard. He conceived the 
idea some years ago that bees would be 
of advantage in helping to fertilize the 
blossoms in this orchard. Accordingly, he 
procured a swarm and he also procured 
a good book upon practical methods in 
beekeeping. He really had no idea of 
ever keeping more than a few swarms. 
However, he found he had three swarms 
at the end of the season and he had 
learned that beekeeping was a very 
fascinating occupation. The next spring 
he made up his mind to increase the 
number of swarms, with the result that 
he had ten at the end of the season. 
Some were purchased, but he had learned 
how to increase and build up the colonies. 
He made a profit of something like $50 
the second year from the sale of honey, 
not a very large sum, but he was learning 
all the time. 
It was five years ago that he started 
and now this man has thirty colonies 
and they are returning him a good profit. 
“The best of it is,” he says, “there is very 
little labor involved in the business.” 
He places the hives in a long row, with 
openings to the southeast, when the cold 
weather comes on. Then he fills up the 
background with swamp hay, so nothing 
but the openings at the front are clear. 
A temporary fence is placed at the back, 
two feet from the hives and the interven¬ 
ing space stuffed with hay. Hay is 
also placed over the tops of the hives 
and held in place by chicken wire. In 
this way he winters the bees safely and 
cheaply.— C. H. Chesley. 
An Ideal Roadside Sign 
nnHE accompanying illustration will 
give beekeepers an idea of an at¬ 
tractive roadside sign as a means of 
disposing of their crop, or at least a 
part of it to passing motorists. Of 
