140 My Bees 



lift out any one of the frames and see exactly 

 what is going on upon the sheet of comb it 

 contains. The same sheet may be partly given 

 up to honey, or may contain young bees in the 

 various stages of growth from the egg to the 

 live bee. In the spring there is usually very 

 little honey left in the hive, the bees having 

 eaten it all during the winter, and filled up the 

 empty cells with eggs, fast becoming bees. 

 The frames of the hives are not often disturbed 

 by the beginner in bee-hiving, since the bees 

 are apt to resent this investigation into their 

 private apartments. Above the box containing 

 the frames comes a cover, which is sufficiently 

 high to allow a number of honey-boxes to be 

 placed right on top of the frames. These 

 honey-boxes are easily contained in a large 

 case, which enables them all to be put on or 

 lifted off together. In this case there are from 

 twenty to thirty boxes to be filled by the bees. 

 In some hives boxes for honey are also placed 

 in the lower part of the hive along the outside 

 walls, when the bees will often fill them in 

 preference to going up into the cover of the 

 hives. 



