A Thousand Answers to Beekeeping Questions (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Thousand Answers to Beekeeping Questions<br><br>The remedy is not difficult to imagine. If possible let the hive be in a cool shady place. A temporary shade and Sprinkling with water will serve a good turn. Give plenty of chance for air. Some practice leaving the covers of the hives raised an inch or so for two or three-days. Some give two stories to the swarm taking away the lower story after two or three days. Either of these plans provides to some extent against an overheated dwell ing. Some practice giving a frame of brood to the swarm with the idea that the bees will feel that they cannot afford to abandon so valuable a piece of property.<br><br>In any case if all laying queens are clipped no prime swarm can abscond unless it joins or is joined by some other swarm having a queen with whole wings. The queen with clipped wing may be lost but it is better to lose the queen alone than to lose both queen and swarm.<br><br>Swarms may abscond also if they are secondary or after swarms and the queen has not mated. When she goes out for her wedding ?ight the swarm may follow her.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.