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teach him the proper time to run for each 

 set of combs. When he has his business 

 learned he should not throw out over a 

 gill of bees ( '4 pint) to the 100 colonies, 

 in extracting from brood frames. Drone 

 brood throws out the most freely, next 

 comes the half-developed larvae. Ex- 

 tracted as above, a small amount of honey 

 will go back to the hive again, but not 

 much. 



KEEPING DIFFERENT KINDS OF HONEY SEP- 

 ARATE. 



The claim is often made that honey 

 should remain on the hive throughout the 

 entire season. Such honey is invariably 

 well-ripened and thick, but in four cases 

 out of five it becomes more or less mixed 

 with amber honey, and, although the pro- 

 ducer will scarcely believe it, yet it is 

 hardly ever quite satisfactory for fancy 

 trade. Last fall I bought different lots of 

 honey where I paid from '2 to 1 cent per 

 pound less for them for these very rea- 

 sons. I want my honey, whether I pro- 

 duce it or buy it. well ripened but riot 

 darkened. I also want, as nearly as 

 possible, each kind of honey by itself. 



TIERING UP — TO WHAT EXTENT IT SHALL BE 

 CARRIED. 



In tiering stories I find that bees work 

 the best as to stories from the bottom up- 

 wards; therefore. 1 put all added ones on 

 top: placing one on whenevar they seem 

 to be getting crowded. I use eight frames 

 and sometimes only seven, in each ten- 

 frame hive, used as an upper story. 

 Where I have Hoffman frames this does 

 away with any bother to the uncapper on 

 account of the projecting sides of the 

 fram^, and also greatly lessens the num- 

 ber of frames to be handled. 



After my first extracting I put on all 

 new stories at the time of extracting, and 

 always on top. As the queen is laying to 

 her utmost capacity throughout the entire 

 surplus season, 1 have to be constantly 

 adding stories to accomodate the bees. 



1 do not find any advantage in tiering 

 Langstroth hives over four stories high, 

 ^.nd hives with frames 12 inches deep not 



over three stories; and it is a question in 

 my mind whether that is not one story too 

 much; therefore, when they have reached 

 that capacity and have again become 

 crowded I find it economy to divide them. 



DIVIDING COLONIES DURING THE HARVEST. 



To do this select a hive of the youngest 

 brood with a reasonable amount of bees, 

 and place it on the old stand after remov- 

 tng the old colony and all the remainder 

 of the stories to a new stand. Upon the 

 hive placed on the old stand 1 place two 

 additional bodies filled with comb; I also 

 prefer to have the queen with them but I 

 am not particular. They will be full of 

 honey and ready for extracting on my 

 next round. The old colony will also be 

 full of honey but not always ready for ex- 

 tracting. Unless so divided, many of the 

 tiered colonies, late in the honey season, 

 will become so crowded that they will 

 swarm. 



I had one colony two years ago making 

 a remarkable record, as I had taken S28 

 worth of honey from it in just 28 

 days. The colony had not been divided 

 and was tiered five bodies high — 1 0-frame 

 Langstroth. The bees then swarmed and 

 flew away. The man on the place saw 

 the swarm, and said, when clustered, it 

 was as big as a barrel. 



As the honey season advances some of 

 the queens in heavily tiered hives will de- 

 sert the lower stor\ and establish their 

 brcod nest in the next upper one. In 

 such cases I usually divide the colony by 

 placing the old colony on a new stand, 

 and t'le queen with a couple of frames of 

 brood with clinging bees in a new hive, 

 filled out with frames of empty combs, 

 with as many upoer stories as they may 

 need, on the old stand. This will end her 

 deserting the lower hive during the full 

 duration of the haney flow, and frequently 

 for the entire season. The deserted lower 

 story, with such brood as may be in it, 

 which will be largely or entirely capped. 

 I place as an upper story on the removed 

 old colony. 



Can an outyard be run profitably for 



