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TEE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



May 



WHEN TO PUT ON NEW SECTIONS 

 ON NEW HIVES. 



Question. — When is it best to put 

 on sections on a hive having a 

 new swarm ? 



Answer. — That will depend some- 

 what on how you work. If your 

 swarm is large, and you have full 

 sheets of foundation in the brood- 

 frames, it is well to place a case of 

 sections (and they should also be fill- 

 ed with foundation) right on the hive 

 when the swarm is run in ; but should 

 you fill the sections with foundation, 

 and use only starters in the brood- 

 frames the queen would be likely to 

 go into the sections to deposit her 

 first eggs unless a queen-excluder 

 were used, in which case she could 

 not get into the sections, no matter 

 how the hive was arranged below. 

 With nothing but starters in the 

 brood-frames, and no queen-excluder 

 used, then it is best to wait about 

 putting on sections till the queen has 

 commenced laying in the new comb 

 built below, when the sections can be 

 put on without fear of brood in them. 

 The plan 1 consider the best, and the 

 one I use more largely than any other, 

 is, to contract the brood-chamber to' 

 two-thirds its usual size, using only 

 frames having starters in them of 

 foundation about half an inch wide, 

 on top of which is placed a queen- 

 excluding honey-board. The new 

 hive thus prepared is set on the stand 

 of the parent colony while the swarm 

 is out, and the sections from the re- 

 moved hive placed over the queen- 

 excluder on the new, when the swarm 

 is hived in this new hive on the old 

 stand, when the old or parent colony 



is placed at some distance away on a 

 new stand which we wish it to occupy. 

 In this way work does not stop in the 

 sections at all, and we, as a rule, get 

 the frames in the contracted brood- 

 chamber filled with nice straight 

 worker combs, at a less cost than the 

 purchasing of foundation and fitting 

 it into wire frames. 



TESTIMONY OF AN ENTHUSIAST FOR 

 THE BICYCLE. 



DR. A. CONAN DOYLE, PHY'SICIAN, 

 AND AUTHOR. 



When the spirits are low, when the day 

 appears dark, when work becomes monoto- 

 nous, when hopes seem hardly worth hav- 

 ing, ]ust mount a bicycle and go for a good 

 spin down the road, without thought of 

 anything but the ride you are taking. 



I have, myself, ridden the bicycle most 

 during my practice as a physician and dur- 

 ing my work in letters. In the morning or 

 the afternoon, before or after work, as the 

 mood o'ertakes me, I mount the wheel and 

 am off for a spin of a few miles up or down 

 the road from my country-place. I can 

 only speak words of praise for the bicycle, 

 for I believe that its use is commonly bene- 

 ficial and not at all detrimental to health, 

 except in the matter of beginners who over- 

 do it. 



The bicycle craze seems to me to be only 

 in its infancy, for probably in time we shall 

 witness the spectacle of our business men 

 going to their offices mounted on the bicycle 

 instead of using the tramways. 



As for the bicycle being more popular in 

 America than in England, I am rather in- 

 clined to believe, from what 1 have seen in 

 both countries, that its popularity on both 

 sides of the water, among English-speaking 

 people, is a pretty even thing. — From 

 " What Are the Benejits of Bicycling f" in 

 DemoresVs Magazine tor May. 



Clubbing List. 



We will send the American Bek-Keeper with 



the— PUB. PRCE. BOTH. 



American Bee Journal, (81 00) 81 35 



American Apiculturist, ( 75) 1 15 



Bee-Keeper's Review. (1 00) 1 35 



Canadian Bee Journal, (1 00) 1 25 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, (1 00) 1 35 



