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April ti orS; havint:; plenty of comb houoy, I 

 gave them all they needed, and blanketed 

 them well to maintain the heat by manipulat- 

 ing the brood in the brood-nest, and putting 

 another hive on the top tilled with comb, 

 and a (|ueen-excluder between; likewise at 

 limes lifling up from below frames of brood 

 to top of hive, they became extra strong in 

 bees. The next move was to divide the col- 

 ony in two. Placing an empty hive a little to 

 one side of the old hive, then opening the 

 hive and searching for the queen, placing the 

 frames she was on in the new hive, then :.' 

 more frames with brood and bees, tilling the 

 rest of the space with empty worker-combs 

 taken from the upper hive and a frame with 

 honey. Next I moved the mother hive (J or s 

 inches to the other side, got all the brood gath- 

 ered to the center, and tilled up with the rest 

 of the empty worker-comb. They soon equal- 

 ized in number of bees nicely. I had sent for 

 a select queen, but being long in coming they 

 had commenced and built queen-cells; I was 

 sure they would kill the new queen, but I 

 cut all the cells out in the morning and after 

 sundown I gave them a good smoking, and in 

 about a half an hour I placed my new queen 

 (in cage) in the center of the brood-frames, 

 just moving the frames apart a little, so I 

 could get the cage dropped in. 1 tied a cord 

 to the cage so it did not drop too far, and 

 closed up the hive. In about 30 hours I opened 

 it and found the queen out, moving around 

 quietly, and the bees seemed to be well pleased 

 as I was. I soon had 2 strong colonies ready 

 for top supers again, and the honey-flow at 

 hand. I bought in all 4 queens, and used 

 them in lite manner, and to get some honey 

 and keep them from swarming I keep the ex- 

 tractor going. I had a lot of empty combs to 

 work on. 



The middle of September I adjusted them 

 for winter quarters, seeing they had plenty of 

 honey, leaving them to gather more if they 

 could, and fix up housekeepingfor the winter. 



About Nov. S I put into the house-cellar 

 10 good colonies and one nucleus, all having 

 good queens, and ;; colonies into a bee-house, 

 trying an experiment again. I cut ;3 holes in 

 the south side of the house, put a 2-inch pipe 

 of wood through the wall 18 inches, set the 

 hive-entrance to the end of the pipe, then 

 covered the hive with sacking cloth, and over 

 all with 3 or 8 feet of flax straw. I enclosed 

 the entrance outside with a slide door, and for 

 fear of cold CiOor 40 below zero) I ttUed the 

 pipe with rags. I may tell later how they 

 came out. 



About the surplus honey; I had over 200 

 pounds, and can sell it at 10 cents a pound. 

 Don't you think I got along well? They 

 kept so strong in number of bees. It took 

 sharp work to keep them from swarming; 

 however, I do not think it is the fault of the 

 bees that they swarm against the bee-keeper's 

 will. Give them room, and care, and there 

 will be very little swarming. 



Thanks to the writers of the .Tournal for 

 pointers about how and when to give empty 

 comb, and better, worker foundation frames 

 in the center of the brood-nest. After all 

 said, I had 2 swarms come off, one did well, 

 but the other left, and I do not know where 

 it went. I would say here, treat the new 

 swarms with a clean, sweet hive and fill with 

 comb or fouudation, and a little brood or 

 young larv;e, and lots of shade from the heat 

 of the sun, and they will never think of skip- 

 ping. 



Some one may ask where I got all the colo- 

 nies I put into the cellar. Well, this way : 

 When I ran across a fine, large queen-cell I 

 would cut it out and put it into a frame of 

 brood — just cut a hole with a pen-knife in the 

 comb and push the cell in it, then place in the 

 parent hive until thequeen would be hatched 

 and fertilized, then in a nucleus and build 

 that up with frames of brood. Soon I had a 

 strong colony, yes, and plenty of honey for 

 winter use. 



Dr. Miller has my thanks for the many 

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 is too selfish altogether. But may he live to 

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