Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20
Useful Hints for Beginners In Bee
Keeping.

Work quietly and avoid sudden jars;
never fight your bees, and always keep
cool.
Ifyou get stung, remove the sting,
squeeze out all the poison you can, and
apply hartshorn.
Use plenty of smoke; a roll of dry rags
or decayed wood makes the best; blow in
the entrance and at top Of frames.
If you are timid, use rubber gloves on
the hands, and a veil over the face and
head; the veil must be long enough to al
low the vest or coat to be put on over it.
When pasture first becomes plenty in
the spring is q good time to transfer
bees. Always work among the hives du-
ring the middle of the day, when the
bees are busy.
Stocks without eggs or young broods
in June must be queenless, and should be
supplied with queen or queen cell, or
they will dwindle away and perish either
by robbers or moth.
When symptoms of robbing occur, use
the utmost caution. Contract the en-
trance of weak hives, and allow no comb,
honey, sugar or syrup to be around.
Avoid opening hives as much as possi-
BILE.
Avoid an excess of drone comb by the
presence of a queen in swarms where
combs are to be constructed. AS swarms
having young queens seldom swarm this
year, less drone comb is built in swarms
having young queens.
Quiet is essentially necessary TO the
well-being of an apiary. Do not place it
near mills, steam works, or manufactures
of any kind If possible, have it in view
from the windows of the family room, as
much extra trouble may be avoided.
As natural talent or business tact is re-
quisite with education to success in bust
ness, so careful turn of mind and love
for the business with an understanding Of
the subject are necessary to success in
bee-keeping.
Put on honey boxes partly filed with
comb as soOn as the lower part of the
hive is we'll filed with honey and bees,
and when they are gathering honey plen-
tifully; commence with only one or two
boxes at time on the most pOpulous
stocks.
In transferring combs, always give
those the preference that contain worker
brood. Put brood combs near the center
of the hive in the order in which they
were in the box hive. Do your transfer
ring where robbers cannot possibly be at
tracted.
Avoid weak swarms as they gather but
little honey, breed slowly, and are in
great danger of doatruotiae by robborc,
the moth, or severity of winter. Weak
swarms should always be united in the
| fall, and should never be made by divid-
ing early in the season.
Whenever you notice the bees running
about the entrance in the evening, mark
that hive and notice it the next evening.
| If the bees run about smelling each other
it is sign they have lost their queen and
should receive attention.
In establishing an apiary, select a gen
| tie slope TO the southeast; face the hives
in the same direction if possible, have
running water near; shade and protection
! from winds are important. Set every
hive as perpendicular as a clock-for q
stand, take two short pieces of four by
six inch scantling, and lay or nail on d
| board.
To make queen cages: Cut wire cloth
three by four inches; pull out two ol
three transverse wires from one of the
three-inch edges, and insert the project
ing ends thus left in the corresponding
meshes of the other three-inch edge, anC
fasten them; stop one end with cork ol
wood. When you wish to introduce &
queen, put her in the cage, and stop VI
the end with wax -Bee-Keeper's Adga
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