510 now TO MAKE THE FAEM PAT. 



should now citlier be joined with anotlier, or supplied witli a 

 fertile queen. Some directions for supplying a queen will be in 

 place here. 



Three weeks are gained bj supplying colonies with a queen 

 when lost. The queen is most frequently lost when going out 

 for impregnation, and as she has destroyed all the unhatched 

 queens and there is no worker brood, the loss must be repaired 

 by the keeper. The indications of loss are plain, and when 

 young queens are a week old the hives should be glanced at 

 morning and evening. The bees run about on the hive, fly 

 away a short distance and return, and all is confusion within 

 and without the hive. This swarm should now be given some 

 worker brood from another hive, or better still a fertile queen. 

 (See our direction for rearing extra queens.) 



The bees will receive her if she is covered with honey water. 

 When queens survive their second year it is best to remove 

 them to give place to a younger and more vigorous one. In 

 using the Langstroth hives brood comb can be obtained at al- 

 most any time. The bee keeper who allows his stocks to remain 

 without queens is too careless to succeed. 



F.VLL Management. September. The fall flowers which 

 are in blossom this month aflbrd often large quantities of honey, 

 but some colonies now seem averse to storing it in the surplus 

 honey boxes, but will crowd the hive full of honey, and leave 

 but little room for brood. When such a state of things occurs 

 remove some of the full combs and insert empty ones. If the 

 cap.s of the cells are sliced off with a sharp knife and the combs 

 laid over a pan and kept warm a little while a large share of the 

 honey will drain out, and the same combs can be returned again 

 and again to be refilled. 



Odoh^r. Any stocks now found without a queen should be 

 joined to a weak colony. Weak colonies should be joined 



