Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I now went to another populous colony and took its Queen away, together with one comb, when a division- board feeder was placed where the comb was taken out. At night I fed the colony a little warm syrup (as they were not getting much honey at the time), and continued this nightly-feeding for eight clays. Three days after taking the Queen out, I went to the hive and took all of the brood away, but left the other combs having honey and food, arranging them close up to the feeder, leaving a place between the two central combs, for the prepared frame to be inserted. The hive was now closed, when the bees were shaken off the combs of brood, and the brood given to a colony which could care for it. Fig. 4.?The Division-Board Feeder. On these combs were numerous queen-cells, which showed that the bees were secreting or producing an abundance of royal jelly. As I wished this jelly to accumulate in the stomachs of the nurse-bees, I took the brood away from them this time, before I put the little larvre into the queen- cups. In this way a colony will be prepared to rear as good Queens as can possibly be roared, when no Queen is presentin the hive while the cells are being built, and is ahead of any other way that I ever tried, where the Queen is to be taken away. It will be seen that an hour before they were feeding thousands of worker-larvae besides the queen-larvae, when, all at once, they are obliged to hold the accumulating chyme, and feel a great anxiety for a Queen, as will be shown by their running all over the hive, flying in the air, and otherwise telling of their distressed condition, when you come with the prepared frame to put it in the hive. By now supplying them with from 12 to 15 little larvse, all cradled in queen-cells, upon which they may bestow all the provisi…
