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Fig. 7 "There's the Queen." 



sheet in front of the hive, and here one saw the advantage of using the tin 

 basin as the very first easy jerk landed most of the bees on the sheet. 



When a swarm is entering a hive, and this is especially true if the 

 cluster be landed about a foot from the entrance, one can often see the 

 queen hurriedly making her way as if anxious to get out of sight. It is 

 always an intensely interesting moment even to a beekeeper when he Bees 

 her long supple form gliding rapidly over the bodies of the other bees, and 

 so it is not unusual for even such experienced men as we see in Fig. 7 in- 

 tently watching for her, to shout triumphantly "There's the queen" as she 

 comes into their field of vision. 



The last photograph in the set, Fig. 8, merely exhibits the conditions as 

 the bees gradually find entrance to their new quarters. 



FORM IX WHICH THE HONEY CROP MAY BE SECURED. 



It may safely be said that the ambition of ninety per cent, of the bee- 

 keepers in British Columbia is to secure only sufficient honey for family 

 use, in fact many of them with half a dozen hives say they would be per- 

 fectly satisfied if their total crop amounted to fifty sections, that is less 

 than ten sections a hive. This is not an ambitions standard by any means, 

 yet it is one that is rather difficult of attainment in the Province as a whole. 

 As was explained in the previous bulletin the cool nights are against suc- 

 cess in the production of section honey, and this is true of almost every 

 district. Here and there one meets with a locality where it is seemingly 

 easy to raise honey in sections, such locations being situated with fine 

 southern exposures, and protected by hilly country on the north. Hatzic is 

 an excellent example of this kind of region, in fact the western inspector 



