HOW TO MAKE INCREASE 



of surplus by dividing as above stated, over 

 what I was able to acquire either by letting 

 them go undivided or dividing in a way that 

 caused the loss of a greater part of their brood. 

 This losing of brood we must guard against 

 at all times if we expect to secure a fine sur- 

 plus. It costs both time and honey to produce 

 it, and it is the principal factor in obtaining 

 those strong colonies that give us tons of honey. 



Far too many beekeepers think that the 

 value of their apiary consists in the number 

 of colonies they keep. This is so only to a 

 certain extent ; for if you had one thousand 

 colonies and they were all weak in bees, so 

 they would give you no surplus, they would 

 not be worth as much as one good strong 

 colony that would give you two hundred or 

 three hundred pounds of honey. 



Several years ago one of my sons bought 

 nine colonies of bees in common box hives, 

 about the first of June. He brought them 

 home and transferred them at once to movable- 

 frame hives, and in about three weeks divided 



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