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amount of honey they will pile up. The 

 old hive contains the brood, eggs and 

 larvte with but few bees at first, but as 

 the weather is warm the yoniig hatch 

 rapidlv and on the 9th day a young ({ueen 

 hatches, but the hive has been so deple- 

 t' d there is no desire to cast a second 

 swarm. She proceeds to destroy the re- 

 maining queen-cells and in ten <1ays more 

 is laying. The brood now being all 

 hatche<l they have a strong working force 

 and the queen has a hive full of empty 

 combs to lav eggs in. A super can now 

 be put on and wdl generally be fdled with 

 fall honev and the hive is one of the best 

 colonies for winter, having a young 

 queen. Thus it will be seen that we 

 keep the heavv working force together 

 during the whole .'^eason. storing surplus 

 in sh^pe to sell, instead of allowing them 

 to split up and build new combs on a new 

 stand. 



I can say amen most heartilv to all of 

 the above, unless it is that of placing the 

 old colony upon a new stand immedialely 

 upon the hiving of the swarm. With me, 

 such a procedure woul I aim )st invaria- 

 bly lead to the issuing of a second swarm. 

 I practice what is known as the Heddon 

 method of preventing after-swarming. 

 Instead of immediately placing the old 

 hive upon a new stand, it i'i set 

 bv the side of the newly hived swarm, 

 with its entrance turned to one side, 

 and nearly at right angles to the new 

 hive. Gradually, each day. the entrance 

 of the old hive is turned a few inches 

 towards that of the new one, when, by 

 the seventh day, the two hives stand side 

 by side. If either is carried away, all of 

 the flying bees will return and enter the 

 one that is left. On that d.iy, the old 

 hive is carried to a new stand. The bees 

 that have flown from that hive during 

 the seven days that it has stoo<l there, 

 now return and enter the hive on the old 

 stand— the swarm that has the .sections. 

 It gives that colony a boom, and .so de- 

 pletes the old colonv just at the time that 

 the young queens are hatching, that an 

 after-swarm seldom issues, but the colo- 

 ny builds up and is a prime one for win- 

 tering, jus as inv Wisconsin friend says. 

 I have room for just one more extract, 

 and that is upon the advisability of 



BREEDING FROM THE BEST QUEENS. 



With a queen from a poor strain of 

 bees or an unprolific one. a colony during 

 a go^d many seasons v\ill yield no profit. 

 Some cpieens are very pn/liiic, yet with a 

 rousing colony, barelv gel enough to win- 

 ter on; hence it is plain to all that (|ueen 

 bees differ in value as Tuuch as horses or 

 cattle Vou will often hear a bee-keeper 

 say he had one swarm which gave him 

 one hundred pounds surplus. "If all 

 mv bees had done as well as that one, 

 whnt a profit I would have!" Yet he 

 paid IK) more attention to the matter and 

 kept on the same way another season 

 with a poor lot of bees, while had he 

 reared (pK ens from that one and super- 

 seded :dl the others from this strain, all 

 would have done as well, for, as a rule, 

 queens du];licate themselves in all their 

 daughters. There may be .some change 

 ill the nature of thi-ir bees, o ving to mat- 

 ing with poor drones but these cm be se- 

 lected as well as queens. 



I have not mentioned all of the good 

 points in the book by any means, and the 

 reader can do himself and the author a 

 benefit by sending 50 cents for the book 

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