Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-06-13

all trouble. Eggs laid in drone cells,
hatch out drones; the same eggs, if
laid in worker cells, produce workers.
Swarmlng is not always-may | not
say, seldom satisfactory in box hives,
hives. when the bees manage it them
selves. The bees have been brought
up in ignorance of what We can do for
them, for the very good reason that we
did not know ourselves, and they sup
pose that it is necessary to provide n
successor for the mother to the hive,
before taking the old one away
As q rule, natural swarming
does not take place short of a week or
ten days preparation. Quite often at
the beginning, there are abundant bees
to spare a swarm-bees live out a short
time, and often die as fast as they hatch
ont, when the hive is full-but at the
time they get ready, they have not in
creased, have been idle during the pre-
paration, and whole swarm has lost
several days IN harvest time. Could II
swarm have been taken out, as soon
as there were bees enough, and put in
to empty combs, ample winter stores
would have been secured. Suppose
that, just at this time, when they have
prepared to leave, change i'll the at
mosphere prevents the secretion of
honey in the flowers, and your
swarm has an empty hive to till, and
no means do it with Have no combs
in which to rear brood the old bees
are dying every day, and it is possible,
before the next yield of honey, there
are too few bees left to accomplish
much This can be avoided if you I'M
derstand it. When you have decided
to take this matter into your own
hands, you should become familiar
with the appearance of the hive that
has bees TO spare swarm. The next
thing is to know when the flowers are
secreting honey in abundance. When
bees and honey are right, then is Che
time to make the swarm, regardless
OF any preparation OF theirs
Every day that a colony is
without laying queen, in summertime
reduces the profit of keeping it. The
old queen goes, or ought to 90, with the
first swarm, whether natural, or altl,
hcially made. In natural swarms, they
usually leave sealed cells with young
queens, to supply her place in the old
hive it would be profitable to have a
queen, fully mature, artIfcially reared,
TO supply her place, whether cells are
left open or not. At the end of a week
the hive should be opened, and all
queen-cells removed, when the laying
queen may be safely introduced. If no
mature queen is on hand the next best
thing is finished cell, reads TO hatch,
to introduce the next day. If no such
cell is to be had, leave one and but one,
of the first made by the old hive. You
WILL of course, see that there are drones
in some OF the hives, at such times.
As long rs good colonies, in the box
hives, can be purchased under ten dol
lars, it is doubtful il economy would
dictate making artificial swarms, or
having others. ! would like to have
YOU feel indifferent obout it. | would
suggest that you provide an empty
hive for each old stock, in case they
were disposed to swarm; but other
wise do just ms if all the bees that
matched IN hive were going to stay
home the whole season and wanted room
for stores. Giveroo in the hive for sur
plus boxes that will hold from $50 to
300 pounds The chances are, that
such hive will make no preparation. II
they do not the extra amount of sur
plus that they store, will purchase two
or three stocks for winter. Should they
swarm, You will have the new stock
and some surplus and no anxiety in the
matter. Give room inside and have the
boxes in close proximity to the body OF
the hive and all will be likely to go
well. Before there are many bees in
the way, early in the month, open the
hive, find the queen, and clip one wing
the swarm will not go off in such case,
if they issue.
The hive may be 50 arranged that the
surplus boxes can be occupied with
frames, and soon as combs ready made
can be furnished, and the honey ex-
tracted, the quantity that we are now
getting might be trebled. Any one
having lost a hive Of bees this winter
viii find great advantage Of saving all
the combs, unless drone-cells or diseas-
ed : put them IN frames, as II transfer
ring. These are what we want when
we came to extracting our honey, in
stead of compelling the bees to lose
time constructing combs. ] Will make
an estimate of the cost of comb, i'll
honey, describe an extractor and give
instructions III rearing queens, etc,
soon.
Domestic Recipes.
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