HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



having a brood nest about four inches shal- 

 lower than the ordinary hive. 



Let us suppose that the winter is past and 

 that the spring has come, and that with the 

 first warm days of April, each and every colony 

 has been looked over, and those that were 

 found to be queenless were given queens, and 

 those that were weak have been strengthened 

 by giving them frames of sealed brood and 

 bees from the stronger hives, so that things are 

 generally equalized. 



In transferring frames of bees and brood to 

 the weaker colonies, be sure that you do not 

 take from the stronger colonies the frame con- 

 taining their queen, or else you will needlessly 

 sacrifice her, since the colony to which she is 

 given will destroy her, while the colony from 

 which she was taken will be made needlessly 

 queenless and will lose time and honey in 

 having to rear a new one. 



As fruit bloom comes on, examine the brood 

 frames of a few colonies, and if the cells near 

 the top bars are sealed with nice new white 



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