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honey will result in a higher temperature 

 inside the hive, and stimulate the queen 

 to greater egg laying. 



CONTRACTION OF THE BROOD NEST. 



Here in central New York the breeding 

 season is short, and the white honey 

 flow begins about the 5th of June. At 

 our home apiary we have no late honey 

 flow, such as buckwheat, hence, after the 

 flow is well on v/e reduce the amount of 

 breeding by limiting the brood nest to 

 only one section of the hive. This will 

 supply the loss of bees, and keep the 

 working force up to the desired capacity, 

 but will prevent the wasting of time, 

 energy and honey in the rearing of bees 

 that will be useless to the colony or its 

 owner. 



Our harvest is over about the first of 

 August, when we requeen all colonies 

 that have not been re-queened during 

 the season, and give an additional section 



of combs to each colony that has been 

 reduced to a single section during the 

 harvest. Having been limited in egg 

 laying for two months, the queen is 

 very ready to occupy the newly added 

 combs; and this brood, when matured, 

 furnishes the bees that are to go through 

 the winter. 



By this system of management, from 

 25 to 40 pounds of white honey, per 

 colony, that otherwise would have been 

 in our brood nests at the close of the 

 season, are now in our supers in the 

 honey house. 



It is our belief that the time is not far 

 distant when the sectional hive will 

 revolutionize the production of comb 

 honey; furnishing a more fancy article 

 that will command a higher price and 

 lead to a greater demand from its great 

 beauty and attractiveness. 



Camillus, N. Y., March 25, 1910. 



Keeping our "Bearings" by Means of a "Compass" 

 On the Front of the Hive. 



D. STAD MENHALL. 



aCCURATE knowledge of the 

 conditions in the hive enables the 

 bee keeper to work rapidly and 

 effectively, and gives greater results. 

 Owing to the variation of conditions in 

 each hive, it is absolutely necessary to 

 keep a record of some kind. Whatever 

 system is used to keep this record, above 

 all, it should be reliable and efficient, and 

 admit of being instantly changed, without 

 loss of time. In these three very im- 

 portant things the brick, stone or slate, 

 placed in different positions on the hive 

 cover, and the book, fail. It is easy for 

 any one thoughtlessly or maliciously 

 inclined to change the brick, stone or 

 slate records. Keeping a book record is 

 necessary when conducting experiments, 



but for actual use in an apiary it takes 

 too much time. There may be some 

 satisfaction in studying a book record 

 before going to the apiary, but I, for one, 

 hope to be such a good bee keeper that, 

 when I get those extensive apiaries 

 a-going on land (maybe so!) I will not 

 need to study about what to do — all I 

 will need to know is the condition of the 

 colony at the last examination, and, by 

 the time 1 get the cover off, 1 will be 

 be ready to do. 



For the last two seasons 1 have used 

 the compass record, as illustrated, in a 

 small way and found it very satisfactory, 

 cheap, durable and efficient, not only as a 

 colony record, but for keeping the age 

 and quality of queens. It was tried in 



