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Title: The Bee-keepers' review
Identifier: beekeepersreview2324nati (find matches)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: National Bee-keepers' Association
Subjects: Bee culture
Publisher: (Flint, Mich. : s. n.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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but two or three of the heaviest frames, placing division boards at each side and lining the empty space with planer shavings. But if very weak I raise up the hive liy putting an empty body or box under it. Then, at my next visit the bees have become accustomed to their ele- vated entrance and can be put on top of their neighbor colony. In this case I do not change the location of the c National Bee Keepei Minneapolis, Min bottom board enlr If leak I clei togcth( 1 crowd them into a single hive body with a tight fitting division-board between them, cutting ofT all communication both above and lielow the frames. Or, if the weak colonies or nuclei are too strong to crowd into one body, I shove one of them Inickvvard itntil there is an opening in the back. Then 1 place an excluder on it and put the brood-chamber with the bees to be united on top of this. Now 1 fasten all the parts,—cover, two brood chambers and bottom board, together with crate staples, so they cannot move or come apart, and then tip the whole thing on end backwards so that the opening at the back now becomes the hive entrance, and close up their for- mer entrance with grass or a piece of lath. The object in tipping the hive on end is to enable the queen from the lower chamber to accompany the bees when they go above as cold weather comes on. Unless this is done she will perish as she cannot pass through the ex- cluder. bled at ivu. The nuclei whose entrances are op- posite to that of the lower hive will probably build up into strong colonies in the spring. Of course, additional frames with honey must be given to supply the queen with combs and with honey for the brood. But when the upper entrance is in the same direction as the lower one the colonies do not be- come very strong as too many bees enter the lower hives. Weak colonies or nuclei will nearly always winter well when arranged in this way. However, I must remark that my hives set quite close together, in long rows. If they were farther apart or placed about irregularly it might not work so well. Cassville. Wis. The Be^ Method of Removing Honey from Unfinished Sections. DR. C. C. MILLER. ^ H.\T is the best i moving honey for the qu cleaned combs of unfinished that they may be used as 'bait' the next spring?" that they an That's right. I've never been able to have satisfac- vork done by having the work tory

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