Identifier: gleaningsinbeecu39medi (find matches)
Title: Gleanings in bee culture
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees Bee culture
Publisher: (Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co.)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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the cover removed, and give each step indetail until the combs are freed from beesand placed on the wheelbarrow. The useof a wheelbarrow in a bee-yard will be apart of my next article. If the reader will turn to Fig. 1 he willnotice that the operator is shown with thesmoker in both hands. This is the <nly in-stance where we use both hands for the bel-lows of the smoker, and here both handsare needed when smoking the greater partof the bees down from an upper story. Asexplained in my former article, the wind istaken advantage of, for the smoker is soplaced that the smoke is blown over thetops of the frames, as shown. When thehoney is nearly all sealed over as it shouldbe at extracting time (and as it will be ifproper methods are followed during thehoney-flow to give enough room but nottoo much room for the storage of the honey),it is no trouble to smoke the bees down be-low. Then this upper story is quickly re-moved to the wheelbarrow, and covered 1911 riT.EAXTNGS IN BEE CULTURE 301
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Fig. 1.—Smoking tlie bees down from tlie upper super. Fig. 2.—Loosening the lowest super and smolc-ing the bees down from the top of the brood-chamber. Fig. 3.—Sliding one comb after another to the sideof the hive to brush off the bees. 302 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE May 15 with a robber cloth. If one is slow in get-ting this upper story removed after thebees are smoked, especially if the colony isof the nervous kind, many of the bees willrush back on the combs again. Extracted-honey producers during theprogress of the flow usually lift up the near-ly tilled super and place the empty one un-derneath. When this method is followed,the partly filled super is at the bottom atthe close of the honey-flow. It is almostimpossible to smoke the bees out of a storyof honey if the combs are unsealed, or eventhough only partly so; and if such a super isbeing handled, or if for any reason the beesdo not run down readily, we proceed as fol-lows: As shown in Fig. 2, the super next thebrood-nest,

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