Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-08-01

AFTERNOON auulence was now beginning
to melt away.
Swarming Bees.
Bees are doing well in this locality,
though there is much rain. White
clover blooms abundant. and if the
sun shines few hours a day nectar is
secreted. Swarms are very large, and
few in nun ber, though hives and sec
tons are full of bees. 1t is noticeable
that few drones have been reared this
season. Eastwood bloom is just open
ing (June 23). Let vigilant eye be
kept upon all colonies, for they are
continually changing by the rapid in
crease of young bees, and by swarm
ing. Keep enough room for storing
surplus honey accessible at all times,
lest the bees be compelled to unwilling
idleness.
When colony swarms, and there is
much unfinished honey in the hive, it
is sometimes advisable to remove the
untitled comb to other colonies to be
finished. If very large swarm issues,
and it is given comb, part of the unfin-
ished sections belonging to the old
colony would soon be completed if put
with the new colony. Take pains to
have as much honey as possible sealed
anu ready to take off, for few fin
lsh Il boxes are more desirable than
many partially filled. l once saw a
farmer taking off small boxes of honey
and putting them into barrel, cover
ing it all up except small crack fol-
the bees to crawl out. Where sections
are used the bees can be brushed of
readily, but with close boxes it is diff
ferent. If such boxes are taken of
toward evening, and covered up neal
to the hive the bees will generally take
a march for it, provided there is nC
brood or queen in it. But if there is
charm never SO sweetly and they viii
remain. 1t is better to return sucf
boxes to the hive. If there is brood
let it remain until it energies, and i
there is queen only, she may leave i
in a short time, when it can be re
moved again. AS soon as the bee
have all left the boxes putty over al
openings so that no millers can get il
to deposit their eggs. [ have ncve
had honey infested with gru5s unles
there were holes in the boxes for tn
millers to enter after removal from tn
hive.
The best place to store honey is in
dry, hot, well-ventllated room.
kept in cellar it gets watery and ooZe
from the cells. Do not allow colonie
to swarm three or four times, as ther
would be little or no income eXceptin
} from the first. If the queen cells ar
cut out and the second swarm returne
: then there will be two large colonies
and surplus may be suspected.
bees are the object sought in lieu. {
honey, then build up these after
swarms by giving them frames of chil
ping brood, and honey from stron
colonies. If left to themselves the
: generally perish the following winter
1t is well to save the queen cells in tn
very best colonies. When the cells al
, ripe. or, in other words, the young al
ready to emerge, the colony can be d
) vided. Bees gnaw off the ends of tn
cells, not clear through but partially
) about the time queen is expected
7 and frame containing such cell an
5 covered with bees may be removed
I a hive where she will soon hatch, an
| the bees remain with her. Queer
= reared under the swarming impuls
are claimed to the best. TheS
= young queens ar "a bonanza, whe
! fecundated and laying, for introducin
| to a queenless colony or where an in
4 potent queen is discOvered.-Pratr
4 Farmer.
=