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will be most sure also to have plenty of stores in just the right posi- 

 tion for the use of the bees in winter, and for rapid building up in 

 the spring. \Vhen the time for expansion comes, which may be 

 in fruit bloom, pry off the top of the box and o\'er it place a brood 

 chamber of nice worker combs containing some honey. It will not 

 be long until the queen will work up and establish a brood nest 

 above. Xow watch until, on a day just about when the main honey 

 flow is ready to open, you look in and find the queen above. Set 

 the upper hive oft' on to the stand and remove the box to one side, 

 cover it with a sheet or carpet the first day until you have all the 

 field workers into the new hive with the queen. As the box will 

 have only a few young bees you can smoke in a young queen on 

 the evening of the day that the division is made. Then remove 

 them to a new stand and work them for extracted honey. 



They will make a fair crop of surplus if the season is a good 

 one and will be ready to go into winter in good condition and the 

 same process can be gone through the next year. The colony on 

 the old stand should give you a big surplus. If you got the box 

 hive for a dollar and a half, as I have done sometimes, I think you 

 will conclude that there are worse investments (including mining 

 stock). I just wish I had one hundred of those tall ones, about 14 

 inches square inside, and 20 inches deep. It makes little difference 

 what the stock is, they will get the crops any way, but you can 

 Italianize by running in young queens or giving ripe cells to the 

 box part at the time of division. In this way you can soon have 

 any strain you desire in the boxes. In a sheltered apiary and the 

 boxes wrapped with black paper, there should be no winter loss in 

 these hives. I have purchased these box hive colonies in the fall 

 at $1.50 each, wintered without loss and the honey and increase for 

 the first season was worth $10.00 per colony, and I had the original 

 number of box hives left. If foul brood gets in you would probably 

 be obliged to break them up and get rid of them entirely. 

 Bridgeport, A\'is. 

 (Another way would be to pile on extracting supers, with drawn combs, let 

 the queen occupy as many of those combs as she desired, run them for extracted 

 honey, and then after the flow make a colony of the bees and brood which is in 

 the extracting com1)s, adding to this colony all the bees which may hatch from 

 the original box as fast as hatched for three weeks. You now have your colony 

 in a frame hive and have secured a honey crop. The old hive of course is 

 destroyed, and the combs made into wax.) 



My Experience in Producing Bulk Comb. 



S. F. MILLER. 



^^^K BOUT twent}'-live years ago, I made the assertion at a 



-^"X Wabash county bee-keepers' convention that if we could 



succeed in producing bulk comb honey and sell it for ten 



cents per pound at a profit, we might succeed in the bee business. 



