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At tilt' I'lid of two wi'i'ks, if the (jiu'cii is 

 louiul hiving, put all the unsealed brood in 

 the hive above and kill the old queen. Also 

 remove the bottom-board of the upper hive 

 and between the two hives put a screen for 

 two days, when it n:ay be very quietly re- 

 moved and a sin^jle laver of newspaper sub- 

 stituted. 



We like this plan because there is no 

 break in brood-rearing and it can be used 

 even in the case of cross colonies during a 

 lUarth of nectar. 



Question. — I have an outyard five miles from the 

 lioine yard and I am going to requeen this out- 

 \ :ird and then would like to carry queen-cells from 

 it to the home yard. What will it be necessary to 

 do in order to keep from chilliiii; the brood in these 

 cells while taking theiii from one yard to the other? 



Colorado. Edward Phillips. 



Answer. — If the queen-cells are carried 

 from one yard to another during warm 

 weather, all that will be necessary is to 

 coNer them warmly with cotton batting.. 

 They should, of course, be moved carefully 

 and without much jarring. 



Question. — Kindly advise me the best plan for 

 treating honey -bound brood-ohambers without taking 

 away brood, young bees, or honey ? If I remove 

 a few of these frames that do not contain brood or 

 queen, place them in another hive body and place 

 this above two supers with escape-board between, 

 allowins the bees to leave and then removing es- 

 cape-board, would they go back to this hive body 

 and carry the honey down into the supers where 

 it is wanted, or will it be necessary to remove 

 frames after the bees have deserted them? Or, have 

 you a better way ! 



New York. " A. M. Cole. 



Answer. — The plan you suggested would 

 hardly do. Better remove some of the 

 frames of honey from the brood-chamber 

 an<l place them in the super above, and then 

 place two or three frames of drawn comb 

 toward the middle of the brood-chamber. 

 If, however, you prefer not to remove combs 

 from the lower story, you can perhaps bring- 

 about the same condition by taking your 

 hive-tool and marring the cappings of the 

 honey near the brood. After the cappings 

 have been broken in this way, the bees will 

 probably remove the honey from such '.:ells 

 and c-irry it above, thus leaving room for 

 the ((ueen to lay below. 



Questions. — (1) How long would it take a col 

 ony to draw out combs from foundation in HolVman 

 standard frames ,' Would it not spoil the whole 

 season for honey gathering ? (2) Can I store drawn 

 coml)s until next year, and can I store frames of 

 honey until spring? Will the combs not spoil or 

 gtt moldy or musty or mildewed. I have a tight 

 chest in the basement where there is good ventila- 

 tion and no extreme heat or cold. Will this do for 

 storing frames of combs and honey 1 



lowu. .John T. Stoughton. 



Answers. — (1) The length of time would 

 depend upon the colony itself and also upon 

 the hcjiiey How. During a heavy honey flow 

 a good stroiig colony might draw out smdi 

 foundation in two or three days. (2) As to 

 how long it will l)e safe to store combs of 

 honey without danger of the honey's granu- 

 lating, will depend ui)on the source from 

 which the honev was obtained, sf)me honevs 



granulating much more rapidly than others. 

 Here in our clover locality, we always keep 

 a few frames of honey over from fall until 

 spring and seldom have any trouble from 

 granulation. When keeping such combs dur- 

 ing the summer the main trouble is the pos- 

 sibility of their becoming infested with wax 

 worms. You need not fear their becoming 

 moldy or mildewed if they are stored in a 

 dry place. The chest that you suggest stor- 

 ing them in would be all right, and, yet, you 

 would not need to go to that trouble. (See 

 Talks to Beginners.) 



Question. — How can I increase after the close 

 of the honey flow? 



New Hampshire. Robert Forsyth. 



Answer. — For making increase we often 

 advise the following plan: 



Divide the colony into two, filling the re- 

 mainder of each hive with drawn combs. 

 Two-thirds of the bees and all of the sealed 

 and hatching brood are placed in a hive on a 

 new stand, the entrance being contracted 

 and a ripe queen-cell or good laying queen 

 intioduced. Both of the colonies should be 

 built up by slow stimulative feeding, pro- 

 vided there is no honey flow at the time. 

 Many of the bees from the new stand will 

 return to the old stand, but all of the young 

 and hatching bees wiU remain to keep the 

 biood warm. 



Ira D. Bartlett of East Jordan, Mich., uses 

 a plan that we have never tried, but one 

 that he thinks has merit. He puts supers of 

 drawn comb above strong colonies and 

 leaves them two or three days until a little 

 honey has been stored in them, and then re- 

 moves the old hive to a new stand and on 

 the old stand places this new hive of drawn 

 comb and honey and the old queen. When 

 the fielders return to the hive they will find 

 their own queen there and will continue as 

 tho no change had been made. He says that 

 such colonies will build up into strong ones 

 in time for winter. 



Another good authority (R. F. Holtermann, 

 we believe) during the honey How makes 

 small nuclei whenever he finds extra queen- 

 cells handy and then by the end of the liow 

 when these nuclei have laying queens, he 

 places several supers of honey above each 

 nucleus, being separated from it by a bee- 

 escape board. At first thought no one would 

 expect the bees from the supers to return to 

 their old location; but, as a matter of fact, 

 he says that many of them will stay and 

 increase the si'/a'. of the nucleus, and that in 

 this way he has been able to build up good 

 colonies after the flow. If you try either of 

 these last two suggestions, we would be very 

 glad indeed to have you report concerning 

 your success. 



Question. — Will you kindly explain in your Au- 

 gust number the method of preparing and using a 

 carbolized cloth for putting the queen below and 

 clearing the super.s of bees. 



New York. T. H. Carter. 



Answer. — A piece of cotton cloth a little 

 larger than the suj)er is soaked in a solution 

 made of one part of carbolic acid to nine 



