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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...the watching for swarms a negligible matter. This is of importance to us, since we are constantly busy at a variety of labor, for we are not only beekeepers, but also dealers in bee goods and makers of comb foundation, with a large force of men under our direction. It is also very important not to be ...
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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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...the watching for swarms a negligible matter. This is of importance to us, since we are constantly busy at a variety of labor, for we are not only beekeepers, but also dealers in bee goods and makers of comb foundation, with a large force of men under our direction. It is also very important not to be required to keep a watchman at each outapiary. It is true that there are seasons when the bees get ahead of us and when it might pay to keep a watchman at each apiary. But these seasons are rare. In 50 years past, we have remembrance of only two, when the bees got so far ahead of us that we had swarms, in great numbers, that were not cared for. A little farther along we will give our method of preventing swarming. We will first give our method of making increase. We stated, in the chapter on spring management, that we do not now rear our own queens. But as we have reared queens for increase, at one time, we will indicate the method which we followed when neither the Doolittle method, nor the still more modern Barbeau method, were in use. The apiarist who wishes to rear queens, in the most modern way, should refer to special works on queen-rearing. Queens for Increase In early spring we remove as much as possible, all dronecomb from the colonies, except from two or three which we desire as drone breeders. These are among our best honey producers of the previous year. We want them pure Italians, because both past experience and breeding theories indicate that hybrids, however good they may prove as honey producers, do not transmit their qualities so invariably as a pure race. We also prefer pure Italians to other foreign races, because with the Italian we can readily recognize the least amount of foreign blood, while with recognized good races...
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