THE BEE-KEEPERS" REVIEW 97 



Do not remove outward protection too soon. It is quite, if not 

 more important, to keep the colony as warm in the spring as in 

 winter. 



Remember no hive in w'hich bees have died should remain on its 

 stand a minute after it is discovered. Remove it beyond the reach 

 of bees. With this in mind, examine each hive the iirst time bees fly. 



Prevent robbing. 



About the fifteenth of March to the first of April, bees may 

 usually be set out from the cellar in this latitude. A good guide is 

 the free blooming of the maples. 



MARCH — Southern States. 



By J. J. VVILDER. 



]\lr. Beginner, if you gave your apiary a good working as we 

 instructed last month (and we hope you did) there has been much 

 progress made, and now another step can be made for greater re- 

 sults. 



The first warm sunny day you have when the bees are working 

 well, look over the apiary again, examining the combs in every hive 

 and see what has been done since your last round. \\'ell, you are 

 delighted, I know, for the colonies are so much stronger and there 

 is so much more brood in the combs, and you haven't lost any col- 

 onies, etc. 



Now be fair with me. Is it not far better to work bees in mod- 

 ern hives by modern methods? You know the condition of each 

 colony of bees and with a little instruction you will know how to 

 proceed with them and harvest great crops of honey. Is this not 

 much better than the old style hives and the let-a-lone uncertain way 

 of keeping bees? 



Now I know you are encouraged and feel good over your new 

 business. Clean out around the hives and the apiary and straighten 

 the hives up nicely on their stands and make things look neat. The 

 bees have quieted down some since they were looked over, and we 

 must do a little more work before we leave them for 30 days more. 

 Alaybe there were two or three colonies which were a little behind 

 in the amount of brood they had increased. They had been given a 

 frame of honey on the first round, for it was found then that ihey 

 had run short of stores. Now they have considerable comb in their 

 hives that have neither honey or young bees in it, and the comb of 

 honey we give them sets in the hive and not much of it has been 

 consumed, and if it has we had better give them another comb with 

 some honey in it from one of our heaviest colonies, and by the way 

 nearly every comb in the strong heavy colony is full of sealed brood 

 except a rim of honey about the top and end bars. 



