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> ... I have decided to post all three parts as well as some stuff by
> Charlie Mraz and Leslie Bailey at:
> http://groups.google.com/group/upstate-new-york-beekeeping
Good stuff. Thanks.
Reading Chas. Mraz's article, I recall we had many hot discussions here
years back, about the wisdom of raising queens by emergency impulse. I took
a lot of lumps.
In Chas. Mraz's article at http://tinyurl.com/5gs2pf, I see this:
> When we divide, we pick the colonies that were the best producers the
> season before. We winter our colonies in 2-1/2 or more brood chambers so
> that even in early spring the colonies are strong and divisions of good
> strength can be easily made with one full hive body containing plenty of
> bees, honey and sealed brood and enough eggs to produce cells. This
> division, without the queen, is placed on top of the parent colony
> above a solid cover with an entrance. This saves the need of extra covers
> and bottom boards.
> We do not graft, but just let the bees produce their own cells, and do
> not look at them again until a month later with queens will be laying.
> After the queens are laying, the nucleus and queen can be moved anywhere
> needed for requiring or replacement. We find queens produced in this
> manner are equal to those produced by any
other system. By letting each division raise its own queen, we
reproduce only one daughter from each mother queen. This helps greatly
to prevent in-breeding and prevent losing our basic stock of breeding
queens.
I never did recall where I got the idea of walk-Away splits, but it must
have been from him, as he had quite an influence and he was up to Alberta a
time or two. I remember being on stage with him one time when he requested
a volunteer for an apitherapy demonstration and being marked with a pen,
then stung in the elbow. I tend to get 'tennis elbow' by picking up supers
with one hand. The sting did not have any effect that I recall -- FWIW.
He was one of the greats and shared his ideas freely far and wide.
Thanks for the reminder.
allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com/spring/splits.htm#Comparing
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