Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. Artificial Swarming--How To Make Swarms By 1)1 Vision--Cyprian And Syrian Bees Great Cell Builders--Honey Production And Queen Breeding Antagonistic To Each Other In Practice--Which Is The Most ProfItable?--Thk Queen The Prime Factor In The Colony--Capable Of Improvement-- Highest Type Of Queen--Necessity For Breeding Queens And Drones--The Proper Conditions Of A Colony To Make Good Queen Cells--How To Procure The Eggs To Get The Larva;--The Right Stage For Use--How To Prepare It And Fix It In The Frame For Use--How To Prepare The Hive--How To Get Bees Of Right Age To Make The Queen Cells--How To Keep The Dates--When To Remove The Cells--How To Make Nuclei For The Reception Of Cells--How To Insert The Cells--Bees Cutting The Cells--How To Prevent--Introducing Virgin Queens--How To Introduce Fertile Queens--Mailing Cages--Candy For Food--How Prepared. HILE the majority of the largest honey pro ducers of our country prefer that their bees should swarm naturally, there are locations and cases where artificial swarming can be practiced to great advantage. There are many plans to do this, and each one, in the hands of the bee-keeper who follows it, is the best. Now I will give a plan or two which I think best for the beginner: The practice of the science of bee-keeping is not unlike the pursuit of other branches of science. You gather an idea, and that idea enlarges and begets other ideas that enable you to generalize your science and modify its modes of application. I now suppose that your apiary consist* of one colony and you want to divide it, and do not care to take the chance of losing the swarm. But you must not think of doing it until it is near the eve of swarming. The hive should be "boiling over" with bees, drones flying, ...
