Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-02-02
For the REPUBIICAS
SCIENTIFIC BEE CULTURE.

month, February, is not without its in
terests and cares. Preparations for Sc
curing hives of some good make is o
special importance, as it is necessary Il
have them made and painted in goot
time for early swarms, and all bee keep
ers should hare early swarms, matter
which is properly in their power
Keep only strong colonies and make
artificial swarms if the spring is ''for-
ward" the last week in May, if the bee;
are bred up sufficiently, and there is
pasture in bloom. Our experience, how
ever, for this climate teaches that the
first and second weeks in June are pref
cradle for the most successful swarming.
Early in the spring, life and health per-
mitting we will give our readers two or
three of the most practical methods OF
artificial swarming. We will strive to
make them SO plain that any bee keeper
can practice successfully; and we are
sure that those who have 20, 80 or to
100, or more colonies will find a great
relief from the every day watching for
swarms to issue, when they shall have
made all their sworms in few hours
spent at the proper time of each day for
2 or days. e
About Hives, we would say for those
who intend to give sufficient attention
to the business to make it profitable, use
a double movable comb frame hive and
a mel-eXtractor, any other kind is not
what you will want when you have
learned by experience what is needed.
The Langstroth two-story hive is the
kind We use and we would not trade
them for any other make, if good yield
of honey is the object of the apiarian.
Others may be more beautiful and some
may be better to winter in on their sum-
mer stands if unprotected, but none are
superior for early breeding and appro-
pirate and acceptable surplus honey
space, convenience in manipulating, &c.
You can have any form of the Langs-
troth Hive desired. If the usual flat
form is Objectionable in your estimation,
just have them made deeper; but what
ever form or kind of hive you COM
mence with keep it, for you will eX-
perience trouble if you use or 4 kinds
of movable comb hives. You will want
to exchange combs with some weak
colonies and if the frames you wish to
use are not the same size, it is impossible
to use them in this way. Those who per-
sist in the use of the box hive will find
such hives as the TORY hive, Dividing
hives, Moth Traps hives and Partitioned
hives of any kind from style or make,
unsatisfactory. The only road to prog
ress in the art of managing bees will be
found i'm the use of some kind of movable
comb hive. The most successful bee
keeper in Ohio uses the double story
Langstroth hive. We are glad to say to
our bee keeping friends that Mr.. Slime
bring OF our own county, is preparing to
make bee hives on scale sufficient to
meet the home demand.r He will make
good hives as cheap as they can be made
at Cleveland, and persons wishing any
kind of hives among the improved pat
terms of the day will save freight by Civ
ing him a call or by leaving their orders
with the undersigned. We would also
announce to our friends interested in
bees, that the North American Bee
Keepers Convention will meet in
Cincinnati the Sth of February. All the
Rail Roads give bee-keepers the benefit
of reduced fare. This Convention will
be the largest ever held in the interests
of this branch of rural economy in
America. A. B. FREY.