This section is from the book "Honey Getting", by Edward Lloyd Sechrist. Also available from Amazon: Honey Getting.
A variation of this No. 3 system is much used in localities having a long honeyflow. Either at the time of putting up brood, or a week later after most of the brood is sealed, the upper brood chamber, or it may be a shallow food chamber, is set on a new bottom board, or even on the ground near the parent colony instead of on top of the stack of supers. Modified Dadant supers, being deeper than the Langstroth shallow supers, are particularly satisfactory for this purpose. This new colony is then given a choice queen cell or a virgin which should soon become a laying queen. In this way, all field bees are caused to return to the parent colony, and the frequent handling of the upper brood chamber, or the food chamber, becomes unnecessary during the summer; and when fall comes and the main honeyflow draws to a close, or at any time up until the colonies are prepared for winter, requeening is accomplished without dequeening by placing the new colony with the young queen on top of the parent colony.
In following this plan, which is called forced Supersedure, the new colony is simply set on top of the parent hive, with nothing between the two brood chambers except one or two thicknesses of newspaper having a few small holes punched through. As a rule the old queen disappears and the young queen from the upper brood chamber becomes the head of the colony. If the parent colony is placed on top of the new colony, the new queen is likely to be killed.
Of course, to make certain that the young queen survives, uninjured, the old queen may be hunted out and killed before the two colonies are united. The upper brood chamber, usually pretty well filled with honey so that the young queen has become crowded for room to lay, becomes full of honey if the late flow is good and supplies winter and spring stores as well as good combs for spring brood rearing.
Any necessary rearrangement of combs can be made after the two colonies are united; and with a young queen heading the colony, plenty of young bees for good wintering should be reared. If additional stores are needed for winter, although seldom necessary, these are better supplied by feeding than by crowding into the brood chamber thick combs of sealed honey taken out of supers.
This variation is particularly applicable to comb honey production and is one of the plans worked out by Mr. Demuth in his apiaries.
These plans of forced Supersedure and requeening are designed to use more bee labor and less man labor, and fit in well with this third clear brood nest system, which is based almost wholly on the idea of saving labor through handling bees by apiaries instead of by single colonies. It is better adapted for the expert than for the beginner who has not yet acquired a thorough knowledge of the principles involved in the clear brood nest method.
 
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