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Chapter XXI.— Hiving : Uniting and Transferring Bees 130 

 Confidenoe in protection from stings, 231. Preparing the hiTe, 23Z. 

 Hiving swarms direct, 233. Swarms in high trees, 234. Bwarms 

 in awliward places, 233. Hiving from a skep, 236. Secure all the 

 cluster 237. Sweetening the hiving skep, 238. Hiving by caging, 

 239 Hiving a swarm on the old stand, 240. Heddon method, 211. 

 Returning swarms, 242. Retracing swarms, 243. Uniting bees, 

 244. Uniting swarms, 245. Uniting two stocks, 246. Uniting 

 queenless bees to a stock, 247. Uniting a swarm to a stock, 218. 

 Uniting driven bees, 249. Uniting driven bees to a stock, ZSU. 

 Transferring bees, 251. Transferring from hive to hive, Z&Z. 

 Transferring from skep to modern hive, 2S3. Automatio transfer 

 from skep, or box, to modern hive. 254. Heddon method of 

 transfer, 254b. Separating swarms, 2S4c. 



Chapter XXII. — Surplus Honey ... ... ... i39 



Preparing in time, 255. Extracted honey more profitable than comb 

 honey, 256. Preparing crates and sections, 257. Three split 

 sections, 258. Split top sections, 259. Uiisplit sections, 260. Pre- 

 paring frames, 261. Wiring frames. 262. Fixing foundation in 

 frames, 263. Three " Donts," 264. The honey flow, 265. 

 Putting on crates, 266. Putting on super boxes, 267. Use of 

 excluders, 268. Tiering crates, 269. Doubling and storifying, 270. 

 Supering skeps, 271. Removing supers, 272. Use of cone escapes. 

 273. Super clearer, 274. Use of super clearer, 275. 



Chapter XXIII. — Extracting Honey ... ... ... i54 



Extracting. 276. Straining and ripening, 277. Cleaning extracted 

 combs, 278. 



Chapter XXIV. — Extracting Wax ... ... ... I57 



Use of wax extractors, 279. Extracting by boiling, 280. 



Chapter XXV. — Queen Rearing and Introduction ... 158 



Old queens, 281. Defective queens. 282. Queenlessness, 283. Signs 

 of queenlessness, 284. Nucleus hives, 285. Queen rearing, 286. 

 Using a swarmed stock, 287. Returned swarm method, 288. 

 Using an unswarmed stock, 289. Forming nuclei, 290. Inserting 

 queen cells, 291. Management of nuclei, 292. Using two stocks, 

 293. Distributing the nuclei, 294. Queen introduction, 295. 

 Balling the queen, 296. Use of queen cages, 297. Introduction by 

 artificial swarming, 298. Direct introduction, 299. Sending 

 queens per post, 30O. 



Chapter XXVI. — Marketing Honey ... ... ... 169 



Home honey, 301. Storing honey, 302. Preparing comb honey for 

 market, 303. Glazing sections, 304. Packing sections for trans- 

 port, 305. Preparing and packing extracted honey for market, 306. 



Chapter XXVII.— Robbing and Fighting ... ..- 175 



Robbing, 307. Precautions, 308. Signs of robbing, 309- Treat- 

 ment, 310. 



