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ing- out the principle may be varied great- 

 ly. One plan is that of putting the old 

 brood nest on top of the supers, and keep- 

 ing the queen out with an excluder if 

 necessary, but, with this management. 



Fig. 2. — False Bottom and Closing Stick. 



the combs are quite likely to be filled with 

 honey as the brood hatches out. Mr. At- 

 water recently described in the Review a 

 plan of placing the new brood nest over 

 the old one, with an opening between 

 covered with queen excluding metal. As 

 the bees hatched they found their way 



down and find their escape just above the 

 regular entrance. When they return they 

 are almost certain of joining the colony in 

 the lower hive, instead of ascending the 

 long tube. 



Mr. W. C. Lyman, of Illinois, carries out 

 this same principle by setting one hive 

 behind the other, and giving the bees of 

 the back hive an entrance under the front 

 hive. He describes and illustrates this 

 plan very nicely in the American Bee 

 Journal, from which journal 1 copy the 

 article mentioned. 



How to get the best results from my 

 bees in a rather poor location; how to 

 control swarming, and to run for comb 

 honey as easily as for extracted; how to 

 keep the colonies strong, and at the same 

 time contented; and to be able to do this 

 in an out-yard as well as at home; how 

 to do it all with only a little labor, com- 

 paratively, and without cutting or chang- 

 ing my hives in any way, and without 

 many extra fixtures- to develop a system 

 that would apply to any standard hive, 

 has been a pretty large problem over 

 which I have studied a good deal, and 

 have tried in a number of ways to solve. 



Also, have made some progress, and 

 with the help of the photographs which I 



Fig. 1. — Two_Hive-Eottcms Facing. 



into the hive above, leaving the combs be- 

 low practically empty. Some one, years 

 ago, practiced putting the old brood nest 

 on top, and then furnishing a spout, in 

 front of the hive, for the bees to come 



have taken of the hive-parts and fixtures 

 which 1 am now using, 1 will try to make 

 plain my method. 



Fig. 1 shows two bottom-boards, of 

 the kind I use and prefer, placed as 

 shown — front end to front end, and the 



