The Italian system of bee keeping; Being an exposition of Don Giotto Ulivi's economical frame hives and honey extractor
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The Italian system of bee keeping; Being an exposition of Don Giotto Ulivi's economical frame hives and honey extractor Details
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... bees will make a fair swarm. Cell building will be commenced at once, and on the second day give them two combs of hatching brood from the removed or some other hive. Any queen cells built thereon to have the larvae removed. Feed constantly, if natural stores are not abundant. On the seventh day after giving the comb of eggs remove a queen from one of the best stocks, with a comb of brood and sufficient bees to make a fair nucleus, which stand down by queen raising swarm. On the following day, make this exchange: remove comb of queen cells, and adhering bees, and insert into centre of the hive from which' the queen has been taken. Then insert queen and nucleus (by alternating combs) with those where queen cells were reared. See Direct Introduction. Thus no colony is worn out during the process; no queen is wasting time; and for the stock to be broken up into nuclei, we have gained another to take its place. The bees which now have the queen cells, having been without their queen for twenty-four hours will joyfully accept the same; and now the cells are to be carefully detached, and one securely fastened into an opening made in each of those combs containing the older brood. On the next day make up the nuclei in separate hives to stand about in various situations as follows: first take those frames with adhering bees, which have plenty of hatching brood; place one such in each nucleus hive, with one comb of stores on either side, adding also as many bees as cover one other comb. If the hive is sufficiently populous, some of those combs with younger brood may be used for nuclei, but they must have besides those on them, as many bees as will cover two other combs to take care of each of such brood combs. The frames with least brood are to remain with one quee...
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