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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



This comb is placed in the middle of the 

 brood chamber. The supers on the old 

 hive are transferred to the new hive on 

 the old stand. 



The next step is to shake all of the 

 bees quite clean from all except two 

 combs in the old hive. The bees on these 

 two combs are left to care for the brood. 

 In shaking- the bees from the combs, 1 

 prefer having the queen enter the new 

 hive with the last-shaken bees, as she is 

 not then so likely to rush up into the 

 super with the first-shaken bees. 



After the bees have been shaken in 

 front of the new hive, the hive of brood 

 is placed behind and a little to one side 

 of the new colony. 



Everything is now left for about seven 

 days without any farther attention. At 

 the end of that time I again shake the 

 bees clean from all the combs, except 

 two, in the old brood chamber; shaking 

 them, of course, in with the shaken 

 swarm of the week previous. 



I now give the remaining- brood and 

 bees of the old hive a young queen, and 

 place them on a new stand, and they 

 will build up into a strong- colony by the 

 close of the season. 



Some may ask the question: "Does 

 the shaken swarm prepare to swarm 

 again, after receiving the additional 

 shake of the week later?" In answer to 

 this I would say about five per cent, have 

 started queen cells again; some about a 

 week after the second shake and others 

 towards the close of the swarming 

 season. 



Perhaps my method of handling the 

 comb honey supers may have something- 

 to do with so small a number of colonies 

 not attempting to swarm. I nearly 

 always place the empty super on top of 

 the supers already on, as I do not wish 

 to make a break in the cluster of bees. 

 After the bees have begun work nicely 

 in the last-added super, it may then be 

 placed next to the brood chamber, the 

 other supers being placed above it. I 

 have had bees go up through five supers 

 and draw out foundation as nicely and 

 as freely as though it were right next to 

 the brood chamber; the only difference 

 being that they do not fill out the sections 

 as full and plump, if left on the top to be 

 be completed. 



Flint, Mich., Jan. 14. 1910. 



Sectional Hives may Help us in Securing 

 Workers for the Harvest. 



S. D. HOUSE. 



'7^- S every suc- 

 ^ ^ cessful en- 

 terprise has 

 some fixed plan 

 of procedure, so 

 we should have 

 our particular 

 method that is 

 most advanta- 

 geous to our 

 surroundings. If 

 we are to build 

 a permanent structure, our first duty 

 should be to see that the foundation i$ 



of the best material possible to be had. 

 These truths apply to apiculture; and the 

 foundation for a crop of honey is a ■ vig- 

 orous young queen hatched the previous 

 season, not later than the first of Sep- 

 tember. Such a queen will keep up 

 brood rearing late in the fall, thus giving- 

 the colony a large number of young bees 

 with vitality unimpaired to withstand the 

 rigors of winter. 



SHUT OUT THE WIND, LET IN THE SUN, AND 

 BEES WILL WINTER IN THE OPEN AIR. 



Our bees that are wintered in the open 

 air are protected from the winds by a 



