48 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Georgia. I used the regular factory-made bodies, but I did make 

 covers and bottoms until there was suitable cypress lumber available. 



Coming now to my apiary work for the season, for which I had 

 everything ready. Again I was let off from the shop for a few days 

 during the season, and in early spring, after some warm sunny days, 

 the bees were looked over and stores were equalized. Later, just at 

 the approach of the honey flow, they were looked over again and stor- 

 ing room added to the strongest colonies. Such colonies were ele- 

 vated from the bottom boards in the way I have already described. 

 Then nothing else was done but a close eye kept on the first great 

 honey plant, as the one I expected the first surplus honey from, and 

 when it was coming well in bloom another round was made, and dur- 

 ing this round more hives were ventilated and storing room added 

 where it was needed. Also, some increase was made where the col- 

 onies were very strong, some of which had started queen cells. A 

 week later another round was made and about the same thing done, 

 the increase being made in the usual manner by dividing the colonies 

 into two equal parts, giving the queen to the parts set on new stands. 

 If no queens were found where cells were being built, both parts were 

 given frame containing cells, and in colonies having no cell, and where 

 queens could not be found, each division was given a ripe queen cell 

 from colonies having them. 



At this time we had too many bees in the yards, and having two 

 other locations picked out and the apiary sites asked for, I prepared 

 52 colonies, or rather the divisions I had made by placing screen 

 covers on them. The entrances were closed at night and next morn- 

 ing we were there very early with three trays (for as yet we had no 

 conveyance) and carried them to one of the new locations. A week 

 later these bees and the others were looked over in the usual manner, 

 but the brood nests in these colonies were spread by inserting empty 

 combs in the middle of them and in the stronger ones full-sheet foun- 

 dation. This was done during the first honey flow. A greater one 

 was yet to come, but was not long oft", as there was no intermission 

 between them. Another visit was made about the mid point between 

 the two flows, at which there was some honey to be removed, which 

 was extracted and the comb put back on the bees at once. A week 

 later or about that much time elapsed between the visits, the bees 

 were looked over in the usual way, but by this time conditions were 

 ideal and the bees were making great headway storing, and the strong- 

 est division at the new yard had their brood chamber full of brood 

 and storing room given them, ."iO bodies being carried there at once 

 for that purpose. By this time the bees were settled down at work. 

 There was little indication of swarming and I lacked about 20 colonies 

 of making as much increase as T wanted to, but I would not tear my 

 bees up under such conditions, for I knew I had a light flow in the 

 fall and could make even more increase than thiit then, and so the hive 



