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that they are filled with new honey, we 

 place on one of these half supers, close 

 down, place on the rim of hive, to keep 

 snug and warm. 



When swarming commences, hive 

 swarms on old stand in hives in which 

 have been placed five starters about two 

 inches deep, and the rest of the hive 

 filled with dummies. After swarm has 

 returned place parent hive alongside of 

 swarm for five days. After removing to 

 new stand the flying bees, which will 

 go into swarm, will thus strengthen it 

 up and give us the best colonies for 

 comb-honey production. 



If the swarm is a very large one, or 

 should two go together, the supers are 

 at once taken from the parent hive and 

 placed on swarm with perforated metal 

 board between so the qneen may be 

 confined |to her rightful domain. An 

 average swarm, however, I leave a day 

 or two before putting on supers and this 

 catches the pollen below, thus doing 

 away with it in the sections. If I have 

 placed on perforated metal board. I re- 

 move it as soon as the queen has become 

 established below, as I find the bees do 

 not work so readily in sections if they 

 have to pass through the zinc. 



During the honey flow hives need 

 close attention to see if more room is 

 needed, or supers need changing from 

 end to center, so as to get end sections 

 as well filled as the center ones. I work 

 on the tiering-up system, always putting 

 the empty super next to the hive. When 

 supers are finished they are taken from 

 the hive by means of the smoker or 

 bee-escape and carried to the store 

 room. The sections are then scraped 

 and graded, packed in no-drip cases, 

 holding one dozen sections; and are 

 then ready for the market. 



Thamesford, Ont. 



Jogging Jim : " 'Ello, Slumpy ! Wot's 

 de matter wid yer face an' ban's ? Got 

 de hives?" Slumpy : "No. I got de 

 bees. " — Judge. 



Quotations from Our 

 Exchanges. 



From Gleanings in Bee Culture : 



To get the bees to finish the outside 

 sections in the super, place a piece of 

 tin over the middle brood frames so the 

 bees will pass to the super at the sides 

 and rear end. — W. B. Ranson. 



Central California has a flourishing 

 association for the marketing of their 

 product. They have started in right, 

 and in line with Arizona and Colorado — 

 no salaried manager and other useless 

 expenses. The sales are made at a min- 

 imum expense to the producer. — J. H. 

 Martin. 



With regard to the matter of hurrying 

 up the process of granulating honey, 

 the surest way and the cheapest that I 

 know of is to leave the combs smeared 

 with honey at the last extracting. Tip- 

 ping the honey several times a day, just 

 a little, will hasten granulation. — S. T. 

 Pettit. 



Colonies suffering from foul-brood are 

 usually weak, and this induces bees 

 from other hives to rob them of their 

 honey, and thus carry off the germs of 

 the disease along with their ill-gotten 

 gains. — T. W. Cowan. 



I wish it might be understood that 

 large yields of honey come not from 

 hives, but can be secured only through 

 an energy and push sufficient to bring 

 large numbers of bees in a hive, and se- 

 cure said large number of bees in 

 time for the honey harvest. In this 

 lies the great secret of successful honey 

 production. — G. M. Doolittle. 



From the Bee-keepers^ Review. 



To have strong colonies at the open- 

 ing of the honey-flow, and to keep 

 them strong during the flow, is one of 

 the most important things connected 

 with comb-honey production. A weak 

 colony may give us some extracted 



