and tts Economic Management. 405, 
Of course, only worked-out combs are to be used in 
the sections, including those not completed from the first 
harvest, after being cleared by the extractor. At the 
termination of the earlier harvest if any stores are left in 
broodless stock combs, the same may be extracted, and in 
Uniting with the Nucleus, 
only those combs most crowded with brood should be 
used. The odd combs of brood can be given to one or 
more lots left at home. Some reader may say that his 
hives ave crowded when his bees go to the moors. They 
may be, but like the queen such bees are already exhausted 
by their previous labors, and new blood is required 
throughout if one wishes to make the most of this last 
important harvest. 
If necessary feed “from hand to mouth” after uniting, 
until time for the heather, but on no account feed heavily, 
as once advised by a correspondent in the Srztish Bee 
Journal, who hoped thereby ‘to fill up the space the old 
queen could not occupy, expecting that the heather honey 
would all go above, and that when the bees came home 
they would require no more feeding. True indeed, for 
there would in many cases be no bees to require it. 
Young Queens every Year. 
My position in regard to this all-important item of 
rearing young queens every year, towards the Autumn, as 
first set out in my 1886 pamphlet, caused considerable 
comment at the time, but practical bee-keepers have since 
realised the necessity of following this method, as well as 
that of having the hives full of brood, such as can only be | 
secured by such queens when preparing for a late harvest. 
Tropical and Semi-Tropical Conditions. 
There is often a peculiarity about the production of 
