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hive where it stood, placing^ the queen 

 at the entrance. The bees will soon 

 find her and return. When perhaps 

 one quarter have entered the new hive, 

 I release the queen and let her run in 

 and soon the whole swarm is back in 

 the new hive on the old stand. 



I have now not only the swarm that 

 issued in this hive, but I have all the 

 flying bees from the old hive which I 

 carry to a new location, and within 

 twelve hours most of the old bees have 

 left it and returned to the old location. 

 They have the old queen and virtually 

 all the working- force of the two 

 swarms, and are in shape to do big- 

 work. They have g-ained that impetus 

 for work acquired only by swarming 

 out. 



Now w^ return to the old hive; we 

 find the honey and brood and those 

 choice queen cells with enough young 

 and hatching bees to keep them warm. 

 We leave them in eight days, in v\hich 

 time the mature brood is hatching rap- 

 idl3'. On the eighth day divide this 

 old colony up into five nuclei, giving 

 each two frames of brood and hone3', 

 with one of these big queen cells. 

 Place them in regular sized hives, 

 close up to one side with division 

 board, and place on separate stands. 

 These queens will hatch and be laying 

 in ten days. Build them up as fast as 

 other hives swarm by giving combs of 

 broud from tliem, and treating the 

 swarm same as above mentioned. 



By using judgment in saving choice 

 cells from the best honey gatherers, 

 making nuclei enough to receive the 

 combs of brood from undesirable 

 stocks, we can double our stocks each 

 season and still produce as large a 

 honey crop as in the no-increase sys- 

 tem. We will have also a choice lot of 

 young queens, many of which having a 

 full set of frames of hatching brood 

 given them, will, if made early, be 

 ready to fill a super or a set of frames 

 for extracting. 



For those wishing no increase of 

 stocks, I <vould still practice this plan 

 of hiving-, but instead of making 

 nuclei, I would pile up the hive bodies 

 of brood five high, until a queen was 

 laying. Then remove four of the upper 

 ones, leaving the queen, and returning 

 bees to the lower one, giving the others 

 one each on top of extracting hives to 

 have the combs filled with honey as 

 fast as clear of brood. 



It is always best to rear a few dozen 

 young queens each season to be used 

 in the apiary, as old and worthless 



ones can be superseded in the fall to 

 advantage. 



ENTHUSIASM. 



Can an Old Man Retain It? 



In the last few years I have found 

 myself watching men who are my 

 senior, and wondering if I would ever 

 fall into the listless, placid, non-pro- 

 gressive state. The same kind if 

 clothes, the same style of collar, the 

 same kind of a "hair cut," or (the lack 

 of It) the same routine da^' after day, 

 witli no heed or care for the wonder- 

 dorful ne7t> things that are springing 

 up on every hand. Enthusiasm dead. 

 To me the picture bordered upon the 

 sad and sorrowful. I felt as though I 

 must retain the enthusinsm of my 

 youth, or life would lose its chiefest 

 chai m I felt that it was not necessary 

 to thus drop back into the chimney 

 corner, and one illustration of the cor- 

 rectness of my belief always come to 

 me in the person of Dr. C. C. Miller, 

 hence it was with unusual pleasure 

 that I read the following in his "Stray 

 Straws'' in Gleaning: 



"Is it not a fact that, the older we 

 grow, the less inclined we are to adopt 

 new devices?" So ye editor, p. 579, 

 Y — e — es, as a general rule. As years 

 advance, interest gradually fades in 

 all directions. The cooking of today 

 is not up to what mother's cooking 

 used to be. Old ways are better, and 

 anj' deviation from the old ways is 

 looked upon with suspicion. But are 

 not bee-keepers an exception to the 

 general rule? Todaj* I was out look- 

 ing at the bees bus}' on the dandelions 

 and plum blossoms. I think I watched 

 them with just as keen interest as I 

 did 45 years ago. I think I take just 

 as keen interest now in studying up 

 something new as I did then. My 

 assistant complains bitterlj' at my 

 wanting to try so many new things 

 that may interfere with the honey crop. 

 A queen-cage that a certain old fogy- 

 ish editor still retains I have cast 

 aside for something new, and many a 

 half-hour is spent studying over some 

 new plan. No, it is hardly a fact that 



