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This system is so simple and easy to manipulate, and so little 

 labor, and at the same time the bees go right along" as before, and I 

 get just as much surplus of comb honey and seldom colonies run for 

 comb ever cast a swarm. Aly method serves just as well for extract- 

 ing- and gets just as large a surplus. Now my method is as follows: 



For crooked combs, undesirable hives, old box hives, boxes or 

 any old thing I find with bees, sometime in ]\[ay, usually when the 

 colonies to be transferred are full of bees and the weather is warm, 

 simply turn the hives bottom side up. exposing- the whole surface of 

 combs. Set on top a body of brood combs. Go to a hive with 

 straight combs and get a card with some brood in all stages, not full. 

 Slip it in center of combs. Lean a board about 18 inches long up in 

 front so it will just rest at the entrance of upper story so as to com- 

 pel the bees to go in there. It will be only a few hours of a little 

 confusion. In about three days lift out the card of brood and you 

 will find four out of five queens above, insert an excluder at once 

 between or on top of old hives where queens are found above, and 

 in 21 to 24 days the old hive may be removed. If old boxes, I bore 

 a small hole on each side just large enough to insert the nozzle of 

 smoker, and after removing it from in under I smoke in the two little 

 holes and the bees will soon run to the top, what few is left, then 

 dump in front of new swarm on old stand. At this time the brood 

 is all hatched out, and as the bees hatch they first fill with honey 

 and go above and leave the old combs with but little honey. Now 

 the old is taken to pieces and I get about straight worker combs 

 enough to make from three to four good straight combs b}- cutting 

 just so as to crowd in the L frame singly. The bees will soon fill 

 out the spaces not filled with comb. These comb pieces are held in 

 place by means of little pieces of broken sections cut about one inch 

 long tacked to the top bin and project down on the edge of the comb 

 below. 



Soft Candy For Winter Stores For Bees. 



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EXPERIMENTS PROVE "SOFT" CANDY TO BE GOOD FOR WINTERING 



PURPOSES.— ALSO, FOR SUPPLYING CAGES WITH FOOD IN 



SHIPPING QUEENS BY MAIL.— A DETAILED FORMULA 



OF HOW TO MAKE AND USE THE FULLER "SOFT" 



CANDY.— A VALUABLE ARTICLE. 



By O. F. FULLER, Blackstone, Mass. 



[The subject that member Fuller takes up, that of providing soft candy as 

 a universal bee-feed for winter, spring or summer stores, for shipping bees with- 

 out combs, also for queen cage feed for mailing, I consider a live subject at this 

 especial time. 



If this soft candy will make it possible for the queen breeder of the north 

 to rear queens from March to November, as Mr. Fuller says, it will be a "boon" 

 to the northern queen rearing business. 



