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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



must be taken away or destroyed as soon 

 as they reach the proper age, or swanning 

 ma}- result just the same as though they 

 had been built below. But how much 

 easier done in the shallow case than in 

 the deep brood-combs, heavj- with brood 

 and honey. 



You may say, " Why not put on the ex- 

 cluder at the time the combs are given to 

 the bees, and thus prevent the queen 

 ever going there at all?" Well, the 

 point is to get the workers there as quick- 

 ly as possible; and you all know that if 

 the queen goes there, honey will not be 

 long in finding its way there. So, when 

 the case is raised and an empty one plac- 

 ed beneath it, the presence of brood 

 tends to draw the /ii zr-iorce away from 

 the brood-combs, and lessens the tension 

 there. The field - force will then get a 

 hustle on themselves that tells you .some- 

 thing is going to be done. O how they — 

 the hive force — then need air ! Give it 

 to them, plenty of it, and always from 

 below. Nothing .so causes the upward 

 march of the bees to roll back upon the 

 brood-combs as does the giving of cooling 

 drafts of air froin above. 



I think that when thus managed bees 

 will store as much honey as they will by 

 the Golden method; and without the great 

 danger ( so it seems to me ) of getting pol- 

 len in the sections. 



I will here admit that 1 have never 

 tried Mr. Golden 's way, as he arranges 

 and descriVjes, but I intend to do so. Mr. 

 Golden mu.st use a small brood-chamber, 

 and certainly his bees were not started off 

 properh' or they would not swarm with 

 but one super partly filled. 



I do not see it exactly, that by hiving a 

 swarm in a double super you get siich a 

 large amount of honey that the bees other- 

 wi.se would liave used in building combs 

 for the new hive and storing the same 

 after they are constructed. Let's see. 

 We will suppose a swarm is issuing, or 

 has just issued; I need a few more ex- 

 tracting-combs, or that some I now have 

 are crooked or contain more or less 

 drone - comb, all of which is tolerably 

 new. I cut the comb out, save an inch 

 or so the next the top-bar. These frames 

 are put into a shallow extracting-ca,se, 

 which case is then placed over a .similar 

 one though empty; and the two constitute 

 the brood-chamber to the hive the swarm 

 is to occup}-. On this I place a slatted 

 queen-excluding honey -board, and then 

 place the section-ca.ses that were on the 

 parent hive. The swarm is to occupy the 

 old stand, the old hive is given a new 

 location, but before doing this, a portion 

 of the yet remaining bees are to 1)e driven 



out with smoke. This so weakens them 

 that there is little danger of second 

 swarms. Contract the entrance, and 

 shade the hive well. Now, .see here, the 

 presence of the empty super gives suffi- 

 cient room till the fever subsides; the 

 absence of old brood-combs caiises the 

 bees to gather less pollen for the first few 

 days after being hived, and what they do 

 bring in, the narrow strips of drawn 

 comb will catch the most of it by the aid 

 of the hone3'-board, for a bee can not 

 easily pass through the perforations with 

 pollen on her legs. The brood-chamber 

 is thus left for about a week, when the 

 empty case is to be taken away, the other 

 now being placed on the bottom-board. 

 The hive may now remain until the hon- 

 ey season is over, or the colony may be 

 re-united with the parent colony about 

 the time the extracting-combs are com- 

 pleted. 



All this has been done with onh- supers 

 for a hive, the increase has been kept 

 down, the extracting-combs have been 

 secured, a few choice queens reared, and 

 I think with as much realh' marketahlc 

 honey as if the .swann had been treated 

 according to Mr. Golden "s method. How- 

 eves, I am open to conviction. If it can 

 be shown that the bees do not store pol- 

 len in the section-comb while the super 

 sits beneath the brood-chamber, then per- 

 haps there is no quicker, nor more prof- 

 itable wa}- of disposing of a swarm. 



It seems to me that others have tried 

 plans similar to that used bj^ Mr. Golden, 

 and that they have abandoned them, but 

 just wh}- I do not recall. I wish that 

 those who have tried this plan or some- 

 thing like it, would report as to their suc- 

 cess. The plan foUtyyved by Mr. McNeal 

 is practically the one that I follow and 

 advi.se in Advanced Bee Culture. 



'F.\CI\G" COMB HONEY. 



Is Putlinjj the Best Side out, in Crating Comb 



Honey, a Dishonest or Undesirable 



Practice ? 



hy outward show let's not be cheated.— G/4y 



Down in eastern New York lives an 

 honest bee-keeper. His name is Aaron 

 Snyder, and his dwelling place Kingston. 

 He has an article in Gleanings on "put- 



