The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-04-18

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fso as to keep chl6renout 5dansec
IISshould be upon welEdraire5 ground
4 where water IN not stand afrern
q rain. An weeds and grass should be
4 kept wei uown- so as TO permit the
4 bees 10 have a free fight 70 and from
I the hive entrance. PurcS,ase your Frs.
I colony as near home as possible. batit
necessary they may be transported 25
Tor 60 miles without serious harm;
though. on warm aichI and q long
haul the combs VIII sometimes melt
down and the colony be an entire loss.
Make your purchases la:e i'll April or
early IN May
An amateur who has never seen a
hive OF bees examined Nor seen the
frames OF combs removed ac3 c.aiaui-
med. does not understand the differ
ence between larvae and brood. has rot
seen the young bees Matching out by
the dozens. perhaps has never seen a
oueen-I believe such 4 one couli Learn
more by spending an ho::T rt1le With
some good apt2rist when he was band
ling his bees. than by reading all the
articles that might be written on stae
subject. A few instructions may not
be out of place Wishing. 10 eramIne
a colony. first OF all in Importance put
on your veil Never I:li::c il this or
:hat MAJ can handle bees without 4
veil. you want a veil over your face
Twill give yoa = confidence. and Keep
the bees from your face and :;a"e you
much pain. NOW. with lighted sInck-
er in your hand blow a very fc9v nnifs
of smoke in q: the entrance aI:a re-
move t:le cover and honey hoard or
cloth. If YOU use cloths Smoke gent
IL over the frames and pTy the tr::iac&
% rs 1,s.
frames. and what do we See2 Perhaps
part OF the comb the size of Your
hand is capped over That's brood.
Around this you viii see small wo-r1s
Those are lar-ae :and eggs in the oat-
e. cells This frame can be Ses aside
or leaned against the hive and al the
frames can be removed and replaced
a; will, the bees kept Subdued by an
occasional puff Of smoke. Thus any
colony can be examined and If honey
is needed IL can be supplied, for each
colony must have, enough honey to
LIST until the honey fow opens
One must be mich more Skil1fu! to
succeed with comb honey than with
be given 10 the bees just when farm
work is pressing The extractor VIII
enable the apiariSt to secure honey
at times when none whatever would
be Stored in sections. AS to exact
data in our locality. we give the date
of extracting and amount extracted
each time from fifteen colonies the
past season. June Il. 5e6 ~: Jrne
IS. 495 n; July Z. 1,005 10; July 20.
49, n: a total of 2,579 10. within
one pound of an average Of 1:> 10
per colony. We keep an average hive
upon scales and thus can note Tow
rapidly honey is being made. Our
scale hive gained one day 13 10. the
next day Is fb-, the next day Is b..
the next "a 10, the next ) 10.
MI. Dickman then gives his method
of marketing, and states his "secre:
of handling bees to make such pho
nomenal production 1t is really M
secret but merely systematic way OF
handling them We have not the
space to state it in full but a COPY Of
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