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. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... you can see her golden abdomen as soon as you lift the frame that she is on. Then the clipping of Queens' wings does away with that expense to the apiarist--the fountain pump--or one of some other manufacture, which all the apiarists think a necessity where their Queens have their wings, so that by ...
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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. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... you can see her golden abdomen as soon as you lift the frame that she is on. Then the clipping of Queens' wings does away with that expense to the apiarist--the fountain pump--or one of some other manufacture, which all the apiarists think a necessity where their Queens have their wings, so that by the use of it swarms may be kept from clustering together, where two or more come out at once, or if a swarm tries to " run away, ' so that it can be stopped. Some claim that a Queen with clipped wings is more liable to fall off the combs, and get injured, than she would be if her wings were not clipped; but I cannot see how their wings should help them to hold on to the combs as long as that part is done with the feet. Others claim that unless the apiarist is constantly on hand, during the swarming season, many Queens will be lost, by the bees swarming out and going back, while the Queen stays out in the grass, she going so far from the hive that she does not find her way back. If the apiarist is obliged to be away from home, let some one of the family get the Queen in the cage, and lay her at the entrance of the hive till the apiarist returns, when he can divide the colony, or let the Queen go back, when she will come out with the swarm again the next day. If all are obliged to be away from home, the Queens can be readily found upon the return of the apiarist, by his passing through the yard and looking for the Queens, which will be found by the little balls of bees from the size of a butternut up to that of an orange; for I have yet to see the Queen, thus left in the grass, which did not have this escort of bees with her. To find the hive that this Queen came out of, take the Queen away from the bees towards night, when the most of the other...
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All Editions of Scientific Queen-Rearing as Practically Applied: Being a Method by Which the Best of Queen-Bees Are Reared in Perfect Accord with Nature's Ways
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