HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



In three days you can remove the block from 

 each entrance, and, using the same entrance 

 strip, so tack it to the entrance of the hives, 

 that there will be a small outlet about a half 

 inch wide. Place a piece of board slanting 

 from the top of the hive to the ground 

 so that the bees when coming out will mark 

 their new location and not return to the old 

 stand they occupied before the division. 



If this rapid increase is done early in the 

 season, — and it should be done early to give 

 the little colonies the entire season in which 

 to build up, — the weather will be sufficiently 

 cool, and the number of bees in each hive so 

 few that there will be no danger of the bees 

 smothering while imprisoned, which certainly 

 would occur if a strong colony were so im- 

 prisoned during warm weather. 



In about a week the little colonies can be 

 opened and the cages taken out, and if you 

 fiind the queen, or even eggs a day or so old, 

 you can know that she has been accepted. 

 There may be rare cases where the queen will 



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