420 A: Modern Bee-Farm 
whole skep must be burned; and do not fail to impress 
upon him the importance of leaving none of the honey in 
any way exposed. 
The owners of skeps cannot be induced to carry out 
any beneficial treatment, while the fact that the combs are 
fixed largely precludes any possibility of cure if attempted.* 
When to Hive the Bees. 
One is so often told that it is desirable to place the bees 
in their new hive the same evening they are brought home, 
that I think it necessary to show how robbing need not 
occur, even if combs wet from extracting are given to them 
at the middle of a warm day. It is considered that when 
put in during the evening all the bees congregate to the 
hive, but they would not in the daytime, besides being 
liable to get robbed out. 
The fact is, with cool evenings often experienced in 
Autumn, many bees are lost by not being able to note 
their location ; whereas in the daytime they gradually 
settle down to the one spot like a new swarm and not 
one is lost, while the bee-keeper is able to find his extra 
queens, and is in no trouble about darkness coming upon 
him before he has half finished. 
Place the Frame-hives in Position, 
quite empty, and shoot in the bees, taking care that only 
one queen is left to preside over the two, three or more 
lots united. Now get your stored combs or those fresh 
from the extractor, and arrange them in position; put on 
the quilt and cover all securely, leaving the entrance several 
* The Managers of the British Bee Journal have to deal with 
queries from many owners of bar-frame hives who are not self- 
reliant; and in these cases also, their advice to destroy bees 
affected by Isle of Wight disease, may not be objected to. 
