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Title: Gleanings in bee culture
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees Bee culture
Publisher: (Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co.)
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Eemove the four screws that hold the top of the shipping-case securely to the side.For goodness sake, dont pry up the tacks from the edge of the wire cloth and imagine thatthe bees will leave the combs in the shipping-case and crawl into the empty hive. Justbefore you take the cover off, blow a very few puffs of smoke lightly across the wire clothto drive the bees down a little. Never try to stupefy bees with smoke. That is not whatthe smoke is for. Smoke scares the bees, and their first impulse is to load up with honey,so they run for the combs and eat all they can hold. Under such conditions they are good-natured, like some of the higher types of animals. JUNE 15, 1916 487
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The long-anticipated moment has come. Carefully lift out, say, the center comb, andyou are quite likely to see on it the large graceful-looking queen. Tho you may never haveseen a queen before, you will recognize her instantly when you see her. She does not lookblunt and clumsy like a drone, and there is something majestic in the way she moves. m > 1? - v^v:r,T^~^ ll * iiiiMii?lnrtiiillHBBiBiii 1T *■ 1 int. ^ ■•1 ^r - ,■ r - ■ Carefully lower each comb of bees from the shipping-ease into a space made for themby removing empty frames of comb foundation from the now hive. Under ordinary condi-tions it is, perhaps, best to locate the combs of bees close to one side of the hive, and put adivision-board, or follower, next to them on the other side. Gradually, as the bees needmore room, they can be given an extra frame of comb foundation. Watching a nucleus develop into a full-size colony is like watching the development ofa child. And to realize that you have a force of little

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