464 A Modern Bee-Farm 
The stock hive is divided by a perforated wood dummy, 
while the bees from both sides have common access to the 
supers placed over excluder zinc. 
See Chapter XIX. for the latest methods of working two 
or more queens together. 
Two or more Queens in Tiering Hives.—In my 1893 
edition of A Modern Bee-Farm | illustrated a method of 
tiering up single stock chambers, with two, four, or more 
queens, before adding the supers, and showed how to unite 
them safely. This plan, however, is not in any sense equal 
to the lateral “ turn-over ” plan, which (with my intermediate 
way) crowds the whole maturing working force into one 
stock chamber, so that the supers are more rapidly filled, 
and no stores can accumulate in surplus stock chambers, as 
in the usual tiering up methods. 
Glass Rail Sections were used by the Author prior to 
1880, with split top rails, and grooves down each inside of 
the uprights. 
V-groves substituted as a so-called “improvement ” upon 
my plain-cut three-side-slit sections are detrimental in 
practice, and necessitate the foundation resting upon the 
bottom bar, when it buckles up, and is inclined to drop from 
its insecure hold at the top and sides. ; 
Foundation in sections should never reach the bottom rail 
by a space equal to din. This allows for stretching by the 
heat and weight of the bees ; the foundation remains even 
all over, and when held within the plain-cut groove will 
never fall. 
By a careful experiment I have found there are 3,500 
worker bees to the pound. Queens will live from three to 
four years ; drones, three months ; workers during Summer, 
because of the wear and tear and risks by flight, the average 
