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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Tuc Home of the Carniolans. 



{C(iui//'sv, hiipei ial-Royal Af;) . Ass'n.) 



All the fixtures required for tliis plan of swarm control should 

 not cost more, I think, than about ."i cents per hive. 



MANIFUI.ATIONS NECESSARY. 



As I started to say, after placing- the two bottoms on the stand, 

 put one of the fixtures at the front end of them, with the bent tins 

 between them, and the w^ire side out or to the front, and the escape 

 holes or notches for the bees at the top, as shown in cut No. 1. 



Next put a l)rood chamber, ])repared as for hivins^ a swarm, on 

 the two bottoms; in it put the queen from the hive that you are 

 working at, and a frame of l)rood if you like, and put on the honey 

 board and all the supers. 



This leaves only the brovxl chamber frt)m which you have re- 

 moved the cpieen to be provided for. Place it on the stand directly 

 behind the hive that you have just fixed, with its bottom board ^s 

 side up, and its front end. that is, the front end of the bottom board, 

 tig-ht up against the back end of the two bottoms under the front 

 hive, and raised on pieces of board % in. so that the floor of the 

 back brood chamber comes flush with the opening- between the two 

 front bottom boards. Put on the cover of the rear brood chamber, 

 and close up the space oxcv the front end of the rear bottom board. 



