HOW TO START BEE-KEEPING 



than two feet away, and in about a week put 

 it the same distance on the other side of the 

 new hive, for by doing this all the bees that 

 hatch from the brood that was left in the old 

 hive will enter the new one and in a matter of 

 three or four weeks all of the bees from the 

 old hive will have entered the new one, whose 

 work will be going on without interruption. 

 After the bees have been transferred, the old 

 combs in the old hive can be cut out without 

 angering the bees, and may be melted up for 

 beeswax. This method is certainly far su- 

 perior to the old-fashioned way of tearing the 

 old hive to pieces, and having to cut out a 

 lot of sticky old combs and piece them together 

 with strings in the new frames. It also has 

 the advantage of putting the bees on frames 

 whose combs will all be wired and making 

 them more secure in handling and extracting. 

 Where the colonies are bought in modern 

 hives there need be no transferring, and the 

 only thing necessary to do to make them ready 

 for moving will be to make a couple of frames 



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