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all I could find on the subject, but did not find anything that just 

 suited me, but I acted partly on what I read. 



I took the old colony and turned it bottom side up. I found 

 the bottom rather rotten, and I knocked it ofif and closed up the old 

 entrance which was now at the top of the hive. I then took a reg- 

 ular bottom board and cut a hole about six inches square in it. 

 This I put on the box hive and put a dove-tailed body, on top of 

 it. I put two combs and eight frames of foundation in the. hive 

 body on top. I left it this way a few days until the bees became 

 familiar with their new entrance, and the colony was strong in 

 bees. I then put a super board between the old hive and the bottom 

 board, and bored an inch auger hole through the back of the old 

 hive as near the bottom board as I could. The old bees all returned 

 to their old entrance and were quartered in the new body on top. 

 The next day I gave them a ripe cell, and in less than two weeks 

 they had a laying queen. I now removed them to a new location, 

 and in a short time they built up to a good strong colony. Return- 

 ing to the old hive I removed the super board and turned the bot- 

 tom board end for end. and replaced it on the hive. I then put an- 

 other body on top and closed up the auger hole entrance. The bees 

 soon learned the new entrance which, they had above. I repeated 

 the same proceeding again as soon as they became strong, which 

 was in about four weeks. In the above way I took two colonies 

 from the box hive and still had the original queen left in the box 

 hive. I wintered them the winter of 1910-'ll with the entrance at 

 the very top of their hive, and they came through in better shape 

 than any of the other ten colonies, which were thoroughly packed 

 and protected. I did not expect they would live until spring. 



The spring of 1911 I decided I would take them out of the box 

 and get it out of the yard, so when they became strong I set a body 

 on top of the old hive and put the bottom board, with the hole in 

 it, on top of all, with a cover on top of that. 



I put four old brood combs into the top body and six frames of 

 foundation. On examination two weeks later I found the queen 

 and brood in the body on top. I then placed a queen excluder be- 

 tween the old hive and the new. In three weeks I removed the old 

 box from the yard, having three colonies from it and finally trans- 

 ferring the original colony from it to a modern hive. I do not claim 

 the foregoing is original, but I never knew of anyone applying it as 

 I did. It certainly gave me good results. 

 Peninsula, Ohio. 



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