Excerpt from The American Bee Journal, Vol. 4: 1868-69 Efforts have been made to overcome the dis advantages arising from repeated afterswarm ing, by uniting several small swarms so as to form one pretty strong stock. But this can scarcely be regarded as a rational process; for what avails it to deal thus with afterswarms, if their production ruins the parent colony, or so greatly reduces it that it can yield no surplus Prevention is here also better than cure; and for this reason we transpose parent stocks with the first ...
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Excerpt from The American Bee Journal, Vol. 4: 1868-69 Efforts have been made to overcome the dis advantages arising from repeated afterswarm ing, by uniting several small swarms so as to form one pretty strong stock. But this can scarcely be regarded as a rational process; for what avails it to deal thus with afterswarms, if their production ruins the parent colony, or so greatly reduces it that it can yield no surplus Prevention is here also better than cure; and for this reason we transpose parent stocks with the first swarms, after these have issued, in order to prevent after-swarming as much as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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