Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-08

three.rib- shoulder is now one of the
most profitable cuts that is made for
export trade. Hogs from which these
cuts are made must be large and mus
cular, long and rangy. The short
small-boned chunk will not answer the
purpose. The bacon hog is also of The
latter description and brings the best
price on the markets. Well-bred,
rangy hogs make tins most profitable
gains, are the most ready sale and
bring the best price on the market.
Management of Bee. ut swnr,ninE Season.
One of the most important steps
toward securing good crop OF bees
and honey, is that of getting the
brood combs we'll filled at the begin.
ming of the harvest. Some varieties
of bees, particularly the yellow Italians,
are inclined to crowd the brood nest
with honey. That is, they are dim
clined to put any honey in tho supers,
so long Us empty cells can be found in
the brood nest-even to put honey
into cells from which young bees
have hatched. If supers containing
drawn combs can be put in at the be-
ginning of the flow, the bees will
readily store honey in the drawn
combs when they would hesitate to
begin work in sections filled only with
starters or comb foundations, This
relieves the pressure upon the brood
nest, and induces the bees to begin
storing their honey in the sections,
and where they begin they are likely
to continue. The removal of the
pressure upon the brood nest allows
of the rearing of more brood, and is
likely to delay swarming until good
start is made in the supers, and
enough young bees are Matched to
make good swarm.
Shading the hives, giving a good,
generous entrance and plenty of room
in the supers, all tend to retard swarm
ing. AS soon as the first super given
is one-half or two-thirds full, it is
raised up, and another placed under
it, next the hive. When the super
last added is half full, another is
placed between it and the hive. By
the time it is necessary to add another
super, it is likely that the upper super
of honey will be filled and ready to
come of. Sometimes supers are
tered up three high.
When n colony swarms the swarm is
hived upon the old stand in hive
having its brood chamber contracted
to only ite frames, the frames being
furnished with starters of comb foun-
dation. The supers are transferred
from the old to the new hive and the
old hive set down near the new one.
By this method all of the field bees
that may be out when the swarm is
sued, return to the old stand and join
the newly hived'swarm that has the
sections. The small brood next
crowds the bees into the sections and
the lack of combs in the brood nest
compels the bees to store their honey
in the .supers until combs can be built
IN tho brood nest, and as fast as the
combs are built, the queen fills them
with eggs, and the result is that all of
the white honey goes into the Sec
tions, while the brood nest becomes
brood nest indeed. With this man.
agement q qucen-excluding honey
board is needed, or the queen will go
into the sections where the swarm is
first hived, and make trouble by lay
ing in the sections.
The old hive is allowed to stand by
the side of the new one until the
eighth day after swarming, when it is
picked up and moved away to a new
location. All of tue bees that have
flown from the old hive in the eight
days mentioned, have marked that
location as their home and will return
to it, and join the new swarm. This
accomplishes two things: 1t throws a
lot of bees into the hive where the
sections are, and robs the old hive at
Just the time when the young queens
are Matching. so weakening its forces
that all thoughts of further swarming
are given up-the young queens being
allowed to fight it out on the line of
''the survival of the tittest." BY this
method the working force and the
sections are all kept together, and
there are no small afterswarms to
bother with After the harvest is
over, there arc two courses to pursue
with the swagms that were hived upon
only five frames: One is that of giving
them more frames. OF combs, and al
lowing them to build up for winter,
which they will do if there is full
flow. The only objection to this ar-
rungement is that swarms with old
queens sometimes lild drone comb.
When colonies are united it is easy to
reject undesirable combs. American
Agricalturist.