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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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I can say is no good. 



Every week or ten daj's I would j^jo to 

 the nuclei and look tlieni over, giving tlieni 

 a gentle smoking, to cause tlieni to fill 

 themselves with honey, then raise the 

 hive from bottom-board, brush off any 

 dead bees and watch closely for indica- 

 tions of moth; replace onboard and ex- 

 amine irames, and as soon as I see that 

 the qufren is ia3'ing nicely I close down 

 and mark the hive; then I go to the two 

 hives that I had reserved at the beginning 



This method I practiced several times 

 during the season; each time I gave a 

 frame of sealed brood to the nuclei and 

 also a frame with a one-fourth sheet of 

 foundation, but being always careful to 

 see that I did not scatter the bees over 

 too many combs, and always keeping the 

 combs on the east .side of the hive, to 

 warm up as early in the day as possible. 



From one of the four original hives I 

 made 12 nuclei, besides taking at three 

 different times duriu"; the summer two 



MR. REHN'S APIARY IN WINTER QUARTERS. 



and take out all the frames of sealed 

 brood I can find and brush all bees off, 

 putting a frame of foundation between 

 each remaining comb; there being all the 

 bees left behind they take hold of the 

 foundation immediately and in a couple 

 of days the frame has a perfect comb with 

 plenty of eggs. 



These frames of brood I give to every 

 nuclei that I think would be better by a 

 little encouragement, and in a few days 

 it has a great quantity of young bees, 

 which ha? a very stimulating effect upon 

 €ach young colony. 



full frames of sealed brood, being six in 

 all, and in September took from same 

 hive six frames of honey and gave to 

 nuclei. On Oct. 15th when I ])ack€d it 

 for winter it had eight frames full of 

 honey, bees and brood. This hive has a 

 leather-colored queen, mated with a 

 hybrid drone; the bees have five bands 

 very plainly marked, are rather disposed 

 to be cross, but have great gathering and 

 breeding qualities. 



In every case each hive of bees gathered 

 sufficient stores for winter, and when I 

 packed them, the middle of October, all 



