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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 5, 1901. 



EMERSON TAYLOR ABBOTT, Editor 



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brood. These four frames were placed in the 

 center of the new hive, and two frames with 

 starters were placed on each side of this brood- 

 nest. With a blanliet, smoker, cold chisel, 

 and hatchet, we went to destroy and to build. 



The blanket was spread, and the old hive 

 was placed on it. the new hive occupying 

 al)out the same plai-e as the old. while the old 

 hive was placed about three feet and at right 

 angles to the new hive. After suioke came 

 the battle. I now turned the old hive bottom 

 end up, and placed the box aforesaid on top, 

 after removing the Iwttom-board. Then more 

 smoke and hammering on the box to get the 

 bees to move upward into it. 



After ten minutes of such coaxing I lifted 

 the box to see the catch. A surprise — about 

 a good, big handful only. These were 

 dumped out on a blanket in front of the new 

 hive. Part started into the new hive while 

 part went in the air, I sighed, and wondered 

 how long it would take to get this colony 

 moved into their new home-to-be at this rate. 

 I unread myself, as it were, and proceeded on 

 my own '• hook." 



The old hive was returned bottom side 

 down, less the bottom-board, and cold chisel, 

 hatchet, and man soon removed two sides 

 and laid bare the comb and bees. I cut out 

 those old combs, rusty and crusty. The 

 combs, when out, one by one, were given a 

 jar at the front of the new hive, and clinging 

 bees were soon off. The third comb removed 

 had the queen — she went in like a lady. 



When all combs were removed I found I 

 had a plenty — I think enough to fill 20 Hoff- 

 man frames. It was old, perhaps containing 

 comb that had been built 20 years, as the hive 

 had been made of yellow poplar that now was 



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While queen and workers were surveying 

 the new quarters, I arranged a super with the 

 fence separators, leaving out the sections. I 

 now took up the cumb pile and cut out all 

 sealed worker-brood into strips of no particu- 

 lar length, but (our inches wide, and put it iu 

 place of the sections. I put t his in the brood- 

 chamber, spread over the top a woolen blan- 

 ket, put on the cover, and let them go at 

 that. In a hall hour from the time of begin- 

 ning all was complete, and house-cleaning- 

 was in full progress. 



The honey in the old comb was unfit for 

 table use. so it was placed in three or four shal- 

 low pans about the yard, and the five colonies 

 soon had the honey home. About two pounds 

 of beeswax was rendered from all the combs 

 after they were cleaned by the bees. 



Twenty-one days later I examined the new" 

 home, and found most of the sealed brood 

 hatched. I removed the old strips and put on 

 a super filled with sections containing starters. 



Now as to results: June 29 I took from 

 this colony 24 full sections of well-capped 

 white clover honey, and gave another super. 

 July 15 I took this super with the same re- 

 sults as before, making in all 48 pounds for 

 this colony, besides a fuU house below, and 

 lots of bees. 



Our honey season closes about the middle 

 of July. We have had the best honey-year 

 since 1898 — an abundance of white clover till 

 the drouth began. Our prime swarm, cast 

 June 3, has done as much as this transferred 

 colony. I feel that I have been successful in 

 this transfer, and would like to know if such 

 a way would always be successful, say in a 

 poor honey-year. T. F. Weaver. 



Fountain Co.. Ind.. Aug. 'S. 



St., Chicago, Ill> 



A Pretty State of Things. 



Mr. Editor will remember my new hive, 

 that I was at so much pains to make. 

 Twenty frames and painted a gentle clover 

 green I Well, what do you think ! About 

 two weeks ago 1 gazed into its inwardness 

 aud beheld what could be not less than 50 

 pounds of luscious honey in those combs. 



One afternoon, this week, I noticed that 

 iiuite a lot of bees seemed aimlessly flying be- 

 fore the entrance, neither Ijringing in stores 

 nor flying to the fields for supplies. I 

 thought appearances strange, and forthwith 

 inspected that colony again. I raised some 

 of the most attractive frames, and, lo 1 they 

 were remarkably light, just heavy enough to 

 account for the wax they contained. I tried 

 another with the same results. Now, why is 

 this thusly ! In handling all the frames I 

 found but few with a little .brood, and not 

 three pounds of honey to that colony. Ha '. 

 hal I have the secret. Robbers I But how 

 can that occur with a pretty strong colony 

 and a small — three-inch— opening to guard * 



But presently I saw the cause of the whole 

 trouble. I thought I had made the hive- 

 cover perfectly tight, but the thing had 

 warped, and one corner failed to connect, 

 leaving a space quite large enough to admit 

 several bees at once, and then ray conclusions 

 were clear and rapid. 



1 transferred that colony into a 10-frame 

 hive at once, before the little honey that was 

 left could entirely disappear, closed up half 

 the entrance, and saw to it that no more ex- 



