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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.1876 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. MANNER OF UNITING OLD HIVES IN AUTUMN. When old hives are.weakened by giving out too many swarms, and have not amassed a sufficient provision for the winter, many proprietors place them one above another, simply making an opening in the board, to serve as a communication between them, and closing the entrance to the upper one with a little clay, for the purpose of making the bees go out and in through the lower one by the only opening that is left them. Several authors advise it; I have done it also, but shall do so no more, having found it attended by two serious inconveniences. The first is, that the two colonies do not always agree; indeed they fight sometimes to extremity, and thus the one is destroyed and the other is weakened. The reason is, that the bees of the upper hive, descending one by one, or only a few at a time, are examined at leisure by those in the lower one, and, not having the same signal, are mistaken for robbers, and killed without mercy. This occurred to me the first time I attempted to unite them in this way; but it never happens in the tumultuous union of two swarms, when the one has been sprinkled and almost glued with honey, in consequence of which it is not in a fit state to commence an attack on those that are hastily displaced. A second inconvenience is, that, even supposing there should be no warfare, the habitation is much too large for those that are henceforth intended to be but one family. Whether they unite in the upper or the under hive, one of them must be left empty, into which thieves can find easier access; and although they should not be plundered, they would suffer from the cold of a severe winter. The population, indeed, is doubled, but so is the size of the lodging, and in that case there will be no s...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217035804
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217035809
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 64 gr


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