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from the basswood bloom, and often a surplus of twenty-five to sixty 

 sections is obtained from buckwheat, should the season prove favor- 

 able for the secretion of nectar from this source. In the same way as 

 we have treated No. 1, as many others are used as we wish increase 

 of colonies, and in this way we not only secure the needed colonies for 

 other out-apiaries, but a good crop of section honey from our bees. 



With the making of the nine colonies, as above given, I have the de- 

 sired number for the year 1905, as I have house-building and other 

 work going on, so I have no desire for further enlarging this year. I 

 still have four colonies with a hive of brood on each, the one having 

 completed the queen-cells being the stronger. As I wish to work sixteen 



colonies for section honey, and having shaken only thirteen at my last 

 visit, I now prepare to shake three more. To do this I pick from the 

 reserved combs enough to fill three hives, using those the nearest full 

 of honey. One of these hives is now carried to the colony completing 

 the queen-cells, a reserve bottom-board placed on its stand, after it has 

 been set off, and the hive with combs of honey set thereon. 



A comb only partly full of brood is now selected from the upper 

 story, one from which many young bees have emerged, and more rap- 

 idly gnawing from the cells, this being set in the center of the combs 

 of honey; then two supers are set on in the way those were at the 



