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ience, that we will put no more money into springs to move bees on, 

 the loads without springs reaching their destination in rather better 

 shape, than with springs. While there was no difference in results 

 as far as the bees were concerned, a heavy load of fifty swarms and 

 covers are not so easily kept in place on springs as without them, 

 the rack being more liable to cause trouble on springs, than without. 

 The fact is, there was positively no rack trouble without springs, 

 while the rack upon springs has to be watched to see that it does not 

 shift out of place. Not a single comb was broken on either load, nor 

 was there any particular pains taken in driving, the teams taking 

 their usual walking gait, excepting getting out to the road through 

 some rough places, the teams were held up some. 



In moving bees during the month of May, screens are tacked 

 on top of the hives and held in place with four lath, but during the 

 three months of summer, more ventilation and clustering room 

 must be provided. For ordinary summer weather and normal 

 swarms, likely a half dept. super placed on top, for a clustering 

 place will be sufficient, but if the weather is extraordinary hot, or 

 an abnormally large colony is to be moved, a full dept. empty super 

 with screen on top should be placed on top the swarm, furnishing 

 room for nearly the whole swarm, clustering room, so they can leave 

 the hive proper, to better control the temperature, thus preventing 

 their melting down and smothering. 



What to do in June 



C. STIMSON, Holly, Colo. 



(For the Arkansas Valley) 



The honey flow from alfalfa usually commences early in June. 

 The old honey should be used up by this time if possible. 



The beginning of the flow is the time to examine the brood to 

 see if it is healthy. The disposition to rob stops as soon as there 

 is a full honey flow. Combs with drone comb should be put in the 

 extracting supers with a queen excluder over the brood nest. As 

 the hives fill up give plenty of room. Always put full sheets of 

 foundation in place of combs taken from the lower story. An old 

 swarm is apt to build drone comb if given an empty frame in the 

 brood nest. If in need of new combs put three frames containing 

 full sheets of foundation in the second story when giving additional 

 room or the first extracting super. If full sheets are put in the 

 brood nest a space is apt to be left along the bottom bar to be filled 

 in later with drone comb. 



