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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



FIG. 1. — METHOD OF TRANSFERRING AS CARRIED OUT BY E. D. TOWNSEND. 



Wayne is seen settinji the ]iile on the first 

 of these uncovered liives. Wlien the hon- 

 ey-liouse is close by, as it was in this case, 

 or when he is carryinjj; for one "spacer" 

 only, he then distributes the supers to the 

 other hives from where he first set theni 

 down. If he is rushed he goes back for the 

 next load, and the si)acers distribute the 

 supers to the hives. 



In Fig. P> my ])artner. H. L. Parks, is seen 

 spacing comljs, and in Fig. 4 he is using a 

 canvas inner cover to make some coml)s 

 stand up straight and stay sjiaced when 

 they do not want to, because the bottom- 

 bars rest on the to]>bars of the old hive l)e- 

 low. This little trick is done by holding 

 the frames sj)aced until the canvas is laid 

 on at one encl so as to stick to them and 

 hold them in the desired position. 



Mesilla I'ark, X. M. 



BEE-KEEPING FOR BEGINNERS, ILLUSTRATED- 

 Transferring Direct into the New Hive. 



BY E. D. TOWNSEND. 



During the season of 1910 we transferred 

 .'50 colonies of bees by the ( Juernsey method. 

 The i)lan is something as follows: At the 

 ai)i)roach of the main honey-tlow (which is 

 from clover here at llemus, where this work 

 was done) a set of brood-combs from a hi\e 

 in which the bees died the ])revious winter 

 is set on top of the colony to be transferred. 

 In a week the (jueen will have taken pos- 

 session of these combs, and will be found 

 laying above. At this time a ([ueen-exclu- 

 der is slii)])ed in between the two hives. In 

 21 days, or as soon as the brood is hatched 

 out of the combs in the old or undesirable 



