THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



sections — 48 in all. I can nse one or more 

 of the supers at one time, each cover cover- 

 ing a super when on the hive. ^A substantial 

 cap with tin roof covers all. I expect to 

 supply room for these threat colonies with- 

 out tiering u[), by putting on one super at a 

 time and when that is partly filled giving 

 another, thus keeping partly filled and 

 empty supers on at all times by removing 

 the completed ones, and substituting empty 

 ones as the bees get crowded for room. I 

 will remove sealed combs from the rear of 

 brood nest, for extracting, so the queen will 

 always have empty combs for brood raising. 

 I turn this stand one-six around each day 

 at noon. I was told by wise bee men that 

 the bees would kill the strange queens at 

 once, but I did not believe them. Josh Bill- 



bees will swarm or not. The entrances are 

 arranged for the swarm catcher which is 

 seen at hand. I hope they will not swarm ; 

 but if they do I shall catch the swarm and 

 hold it in the catcher over night and then 

 return the queen and part of the bees to the 

 hive from which they came, but the bulk of 

 the bees I shall distribute equally to all the 

 hives, removing combs and giving three or 

 four empty ones to the hive that swarmed. 



I put the colonies in these hives on six to 

 eight combs each this spring to start with 

 and have added combs as needed, feeding a 

 little each day when required, and there is 

 a strong colony in each hive. I expect to 

 obtain great results in comb honey from 

 these six hives, and if I succeed I shall con- 

 struct one or more of 12 to 20 hives each, as I 



VOI^VING NON-.SVVAKMEK. 



ings said it was '"no use to know so much 

 when nearly all we knowed wasn't so." I 

 fear that a great deal of our bee knowledge 

 is of that kind, I thought I could train bees 

 so that they would know nothing about any 

 special hive or queen, and I now change the 

 hives each day without the least shadow of 

 disturbance or anoyance of any kind, the 

 bees work away just as if nothing had hap- 

 pened. Tally one for man's great need, the 

 co-operation of all for the use of all. I do 

 not know from experiment whether these 



find it a very handy way to handle bees, the 

 hives being high enough to avoid stooping 

 and the center of the stand makes a handy 

 place to set things; but, however the experi- 

 ment comes out, the public shall know the 

 facts. 



Let me say here briefly that I have now 

 spent three years in carefully experiment- 

 ing with spring packing with outer cases, 

 and I now declare emphatically that with 

 me it does not pay. 



FoBBSTviLLE, MiNN., June 21, 1892. 



