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do not tiiko tlio cover olT \hv super. 

 I'so very littk' smoke; next lind \\\o 

 (lueeii niul plncc her witli llie Irani • 

 (il lirooil s'lie is on, in the n(>\\iy forni- 

 (>(! hive, with three of the empty 

 Iranies on one side and four on the 

 other. Xow take from tlie same eol- 

 ony two more frames that contain no 

 bi'ood and place one on each side of 

 (lie empty frames and yom* hrood 

 cliamher is complete. Phice an empty 

 super, containing only starters in the 

 sections, on this newly formed colony. 

 Take the cover oft" the other super and 

 l)lace the super on the empty super, 

 and the super from colony No. 2 on 

 top of these two supers. Now cover 

 the newly formed hive with a thin 

 board with a 3-8 inch rim to make it 

 look like an escape board a la Porter. 

 Cut an entrance in this escape board 

 by cutting two inches out of the rim 

 in the front end. Now bore an inch 

 hole through the board, one inch from 

 the two-inch rim entrance. 



Kill the queen from colony No. 2 

 and set the colony on this board, bot- 

 tom-board removed, and also the body 

 with the brood and bees from colony 

 No. 1 on top of this, cover up and 

 you are tinislied. You will now have 

 shot tower hives a la France. Worl; 

 is now going on in the supers in dou- 

 ble time, hip. hip, and the colony is 

 gaining in strength daily. 



Fifteen days later, in transferring, 

 the two brood stories should be taken 

 off and placed beside the parent col- 

 ony. Eight days later reduce down 

 to 20 frames, give them a strip of eggs 

 a la Alley and you will have a number 

 of queens 25 per cent superior to those 

 reared under the swarming impulse. 

 Two weeks after the eggs are given, 

 kill the queen in the old colony, give 

 half of the brood to the parent col- 

 ony that has the capped cells, and. 

 at the same time, give the old colon\ 

 two cells from this parent colony, pro- 



tected a In West. You will now nave 

 .\oiir whole apiary riMHieened, wliicli 

 is v( ry essential in the siio;tk swam; 

 system." 



THR HIVE PHOHLEM. 



A Natural Home for Bees, and a I'laclic.ii 



Hive for the Bee-Keeper.niay he 



Widelv DitTereiit. 



The hive that niiglit lie best for the 

 l.'c\>s, and the one that would be best 

 for their owiier, may not be one and 

 the same thing. I remenilier arguing 

 with a bee-keeper on this subject, and 

 he brought up for an illustration, to 

 show that hives ought to be so built 

 as to accommodate the bees, that we 

 would not build a house with two or 

 tliree steps between the kitchen and 

 dining-room, and thus make our wives 

 climb up and down these steps a hun- 

 dred times a day, or n)ore. He argued 

 that we ought to make hives conven- 

 ient for the bees, just as we make our 

 homes convenient for our wiv(^s. The 

 point is just here: We build hives 

 for our convenience, and not for the 

 convenience of the bees. If we make 

 them so inconvenient for the bees that 

 they can make no headway storing 

 surplus, or if the hives are so far from 

 the natural needs of the bees that 

 they perish in the winter, in either 

 case we must be the losers. In short, 

 a hi\e must be, to a certain extent, a 

 sort of compromise l)etweon what tU3 

 l)ees would like, or make for them- 

 selves if they could have things their 

 own Avay, and what the bee-keeper 

 would like. On tris snlsject I think 

 I have never read anything that was 

 more to the point than a recent articl" 

 iji the American I?ee .Tournal. It was 

 written by that veteran, Mr. 'SI. A. 

 (Jill, and it reads as follows: 



"I have read Mr, Aikln's articles 01 

 the hive problem with considerable in- 



