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Saturday, August 7,1920
August in the Bee Yard
AUGUST marks the low point of
"i summer. By the hrst, all pt the
cummer flowers'are out of bloom and
ihp fall flowers will not open unti
.u latter oart 6f the month. A few
hardy plants give" enough nectar to
keep the bees at work, while cotton
and cowpeas in certain localities give
some surplus. "As the heavy honey
flow of spring decreased, tne egg
l iving was reduced until 'now there
vrv little brood in tne nive.
is a resting period between the two
brood-rearing periods.
This is a good time to requeen, as
ihe eood young queen will insure
vou a strong stand for wintering and
i strong colony in the fall is 4he bee
keeper's best insurance, for the next
years crop, it is a common oDser
vation that a colony requeened in the
fall is not likely to swarm the next
coring. If requeening is done , early
in August the young queen will have
a strong colony to gather the fall
honey flow, especially as it is heavy
but of short duration.
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To requeen a hive i to give it either
a new queen from 'another-hive oY
eggs or queen cells and allow the bees
to raise one themselves. Of the many
ways of requeening the two following
are simple and easy Jto carry out. If
you desire to improve your stock of
bees, purchase a quen from some
queen breeder. The advertisements
of these men can be found in all the
bee papers. Yo "will receive the
queen by mail. She will be in a
wooden and wire cage. As soon as
possible after her arrival she should
be placed in the hive. To do this
smoke the hive well, remove the old
queen, shove the top bars of the
brood chamber apart until the queen
cage will enter. One end of the queen
cage has a piece of cardboard tacked
over a sugar filled hole. Remove
this card and place the cage, this end
down, between the frames. Now press
one edge of the cage against a brood
comb and hold it in place by pres
sing the other brood frame against
the other edge. In this way the cage
is held within the brood nest. Return
to the hive in 24 hours and if the
queen is not out yet, loosen the sugar
candy with a knife. -
A very easy method for the man
with a few stands of bees, is to select
the colony that is a good honey pro
ducer and is easily handled. Take
out a frame containing eggs, remove
all the bees from the comb. Go to
the hive to be requeened and after
killing the queen remove a frame of
brood, brushing off the bees, and sub
stitute the frames removed. Mark
the introduced frame. Two or three
times between the seventh and fif
teenth day after, look through
the hive anrl r1fcrrrwtr oil ntiaon 11c
except on the frame put in. It ;s next
to impossible and almost useless to
requeen a hive in which the frames are
not movable.
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THe best protection against moth
1S a young vigorous queen. Such a.
V cu Klves yu plenty ot bees and
they take care of the moth. ,In case
you find moths in a hive the 'chances
are that it is queenless. Do not try to
requeen, but unite this colnnv with a
ouung one.
Any colony having lay-
united with a good
jg workers should not be requeened
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colony.
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- neia. it the bees are not there
jnead of you there is a big honey
cu on from some other plant. Like
tton, the cowpea secretes nectar at
.various places outside the- flnworsnH
f one of the plants it pays to raise as
- uney production is a
dlton to the regular crop.
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Swift 6s Company, from time to
time, publishes facts and figures
on the meat packing business.
These figures are published in-the
interests of the pubKcrthe stock
raiser, and the industry itself.
We want you who raise live stock
to believe these statements for
your own sake and the sake of
the industry in which we are
mutually engaged with you, as
much as for our own.
Swift & Company is a branch of
your stock raising business. It
is your distributing department,
getting your raw material into
shape for consumption and get
ting it into the hands of the
consumer.
Any instructive information that
can be brought out regarding this
vast, vital industry helps you and
our figures
reliable
helps the public as much as it
helps us. It tends to a more
intelligent handling of the prob
lem which we are helping each
other to solve, with benefit to all
concerned. We need each other,
and we need to understand each
other. 1
You can depend upon Swift facts
and figures. They are the very
figures we use in determining from
day to day what conditions in
the industry are, and where all
of us, you, Swift & Company,
and the people we serve stand
in relation to them.
They are taken directly from our
current books and records. They
are carefully verified by certified
public accountants. They are
gone over every year by the
United States Internal Revenue
Department, in checking up our
income and profit returns.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
Founded 1868
A nation-wide organization owned by more than 30,000 shareholders
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