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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



They are built quicker, and are stronger. 



You would lose money in attempting to 

 rear queens early enough in the season to 

 make increase as I did last spring. Bet- 

 ter get them from the South. 



I doubt if the queen would go up into 

 an upper story furnished only with foun- 

 dation. If honey is coming in, the foun- 

 dation is soon drawn into combs, but 

 queens don"t like these new combs so 

 well as they do old combs. If you had 



the thousands, daily. Another thing: AH 

 the surplus better be stored on the old 

 stand by the neA^ly formed colony, and it 

 must be given all the bees possible at the 

 outset, and then nourished or strength - 

 ened, by giving bees from the old hive 

 as they hatch and become old enough to 

 fly. 



I would introdu:e an Italian queen to 

 the old colony, as suggests d by Mr. 

 Swanson, after driving out the lorced 



Putting Sphnts into Foundation. 



some sets of ^Id combs to put on as 

 supers, the queens would soon go up and 

 occupy them. If compelled to use foun- 

 dation, I see no better way than to driye 

 (drum) the queen and most of the bees 

 into the upper story filled with founda- 

 tion, leaving this drummed out swarm on 

 the old stand. Don't put it on a new 

 stand. Some of the bees would return to 

 the old stand, and the flying bees that are 

 out in the fields would be lost to this new 

 swarm. Remember, this newly estab- 

 lished colony has no brood, and will have 

 no bees hatching for three weeks, while, 

 in the old colony bees will be hatching by 



swarm, also one to the forced swarm as 

 soon as I could get around and find the 

 old black queen. 



After making the forced swarm, and 

 placing it upon the old stand, I would set 

 the old hive by the side of it, with its en- 

 trance turned away at an angle of about 

 80 degrees. Gradually every day or two, 

 for a week or ten days, 1 would turn the 

 eld hive toward the new until the two 

 hives stood parallel, close together, when 

 1 would pick up the old hive and set it 

 upon the opposite s'de of the new hive, 

 turning the entrance around at an angle 

 of 80 degrees. This throws all of the 



