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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



April 



iiiannor as abovo, and place in it tlie 

 (|iuH'n, comb and adhorinj? bees from a 

 strong colony which I will call No. 3. 

 Now take the combs one at a time from 

 No. 3 and shake the bees from them, 

 lirst in front of No. 1 and then in front 

 of No. 3 and so oji nntil all the frames 

 have been removed, when all combs 

 containinf? brood are to be replaced in 

 the hive from which they were taken. 

 See that thev have some honey also. 



In this way all old field-bees will re- 

 turn to the old stand and there will be 

 enoufrh of them to rear a (jueen and 

 care for the brood, while there will be- 

 only yonnji; bees in Nos. 1 and :.'. whicii 

 will release tlie ipiecn. In this wav 

 you make a sure thinjr of introducinji- 

 a valuable ([ueen. .\t the san\e time 

 you save the ok! (juecn. who will build 

 up stronji for winter, while No. 3 will 

 start ((ueen cell.s — all of which should be 

 cut out on the eighth day and eggs 

 given from No. I to r<'ar a new (|ueen 

 fntm. She will be a half-breed and may 

 prove a superior (pieen. The above 

 |>lau never fails. It is the old be(>s that 



kill a queen — the young bees never do 

 that, and by this method none but 

 young bees stay with the caged queen. 

 Last season, just as I was about to ex- 

 tract, I received a present of two beau- 

 tiful queens from Mr. Henry Alley, 

 which I introduced as above stated, 

 while removing the honey to the ex- 

 tracting house. The two old colonies 

 were very strong in bees and honey, 

 each hive containing 36 L frames, from 

 which I took about 300 pounds of honey 

 and at the same time made an increase 

 of 300 per cent. 



South Wales, N.Y. 



Iliiasinucli as Mr. Tefft is a bee-keeper of long 

 experieuce, whose work has been attended with 

 success, we are led to surmise that he sees some 

 advantage in the method advocated, which he 

 failed to state. That the chances for a queen's ac- 

 ceptance are better with young than with old bees, 

 s everywhere admitted ; but wherein lies the vir- 

 tue in the alternate shaking of frames before two 

 hives, is nof. ajiparent. Would not the introduc- 

 tion have been as well accomplished — and on the 

 same principle — had Mr. Tefft prepared hive No. 1 

 as stated, and then simply have shaken the bees 

 from a half of the combs of No. 3 ? Any further 

 division of colonies, or other apiary work, is an- 

 other subject, having no bearing whatever upon 

 tlie introduction of a queen in (juestion; and tends 

 only to complicate the instructions, should any 

 one desire to test the plan. Another point which 

 remains a trifle obscure is, why the qxieen. which 

 Mr. TetTt proposes to rear in No. ;i "will be a half- 

 breed." Would not such an assertion be on a par 

 with the statement that if an egg of jmre leghorn 

 stock were hatched by a red game hen, the chick 

 would be a half-breed ? It cannot be that Mr. 

 TcfTt has succeeded in clearly expressing himself 

 on this ])oint. — Editok.] 



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