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A YEAR'S WORK IN AN OUT- APIARY 



Having the frame with queen-cells in the hive, I next take the frame 

 of hrood and go hack to the hive having the cells, when it is put in the 

 place left vacant there. In this way I keep on until the five colonies 

 having upper stories of brood have a frame with queen-cells on it from 

 the best breeder. 



I now take off these five prepared upper stories, setting each on one 

 of the bottom-boards previously placed where they are to stand, putting 

 on the covers and adjusting the entrance to about three inches in length. 

 The setting-off of these hives paves the way for using the other four 

 frames having queen-cells on them in four more hives of brood, follow- 

 ing the same plan in treating them which was used with the five now 

 fixed on new stands, for the making of that many new colonies, so I have 

 nine more colonies than I did when I entered the apiary an hour or so 

 before. As the brood in these combs is all sealed now, and the bees on 

 them are nearly all young bees, with more emerging every minute, there 

 will be no setback to this colony from the bees returning to the colony 

 they came from, as is generally the case with the most of the ways used 

 in making colonies by the "setoff" plan. And this is the best, quickest. 



ENTRANCE CONTBACTED TO THREE INCHES. 



and easiest way of making colonies with which I am familiar; and this 

 I say after using it for more than ten years, and after having tried 

 nearly all the plans given by others. 



If for any reason I wish a greater number of colonies than can be 

 made as here given, and wish them for the purpose of taking care of bee- 

 less brood, I make as many as I think I shall need, during my third 

 visit to the apiary. In the following manner: I take two frames of 

 emerging brood from the colonies having eight frames, and, instead of 



