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locations of their own; the flyin^f bees, 

 of course, returning and joining- the 

 colonies by the side of which they had 

 been sitting. About a week later a hive 

 full of empty combs was placed on top 

 of each of these ten colonies. A week 

 later, the queens of the most populous 

 had mounted to the upper stories, and 

 started to use them as brood nests. The 

 upper stories of combs, to all of them, 

 were now placed upon the stands, the 

 old brood nests being moved away and 

 set by the side of the ten weakest colo- 

 nies. Before moving any colony away, 

 however, I saw to it that the queen was 

 in the upper story left upon the old 

 stand. If she had not already gone 

 there, I hunted her up, and placed her 

 there, shaking off some of the bees with 

 her. In fact, I shook the bees off per- 

 haps half the brood combs into the new 

 hives left upon the old stands. These 

 newly formed colonies on the old stands 

 now had queens, all of the flying bees, 

 and nearly half of the nurse bees, and 

 they built up nicely. The old hives were 

 now queenless. and robbed of their flying 

 bees, and half of their nurse bees. About 

 ten days later I shook a good share of 



the bees from the brood combs of these 

 hives into the hives standing by them. I 

 preferred to have the work of those bees 

 in the hives containing queens. At the 

 end of three weeks, all of the bees in 

 those old hives were shaken into the 

 hives next to them. The combs were 

 now entirely free from brood. The honey 

 harvest was soon over, and, when it was, 

 the bees came and carried away what 

 honey was stored in these old combs, 

 thus leaving them free from both brood 

 and honey. They were nice, straight 

 combs, and it was not much work to cut 

 them out and fit them into Langstroth 

 frames. I hung them in upper stories, 

 and set them over full colonies, that the 

 bees might trim things up and weld 

 t:gether the joints in the combs. 



Fall found me the possessor of 41 

 colonies in ten-frame hives; combs fairly 

 loaded down with honey, and stocked 

 with young bees; besides I had 70 full 

 combs of honey saved for spring feeding. 

 These colonies are wintering perfectly, 

 and I have all of those empty combs, and 

 I am looking forward to making things 

 "hum" the coming season. 



Flint. Mich., March 10, 1910. 



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Bee Journals, Bee Hives, Brood Frames 

 and Bottom Boards. 



MATHILDE CANDLER. 



IN the long win- 

 ter evenings, 

 when the day's 

 work is done, 

 how delightful it 

 is to sit by a 

 warm coal fire, 

 and read a book 

 that w e have 

 long coveted or 

 wanted to read 

 but could not 

 indulge in because of_the press of other 

 duties. Only a bookworm can under- 



stand the pleasure that there is in read- 

 ing; just as, I suppose only a smoker can 

 understand the comfort that a man gets 

 out of a pipe, or cigar. In both cases it 

 is a passion which has become one of the 

 joys of lif9. 



But it is not only books that I enjoy 

 these evenings, I also enjoy my bee 

 journals and magazines. I keep all my 

 bee papers and have an easy way to file 

 them; and now 1 look them over and 

 re-read some of the articles that were 

 forgotten or only hurriedly glanced over, 

 during the busy season; and I read, and 



