§2 PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING 



must also be placed in the "first hive to replace 

 the one taken out. Now remove the full colony 

 to a new location, and on the vacant site place 

 the hive containing the queen. The bees which 

 are out gathering, along with others which will 

 return from the removed hive, will make up the 

 swarm, which should be well fed until established. 

 The old stock will raise a new queen, but if a 

 fertile queen can be given, or even a ripe queen- 

 cell, valuable time will be saved. 



Where one stock is made into two no honey is 

 secured that season as a rule, and the next varia- 

 tion is recommended as giving moderate increase 

 with a possibility of surplus honey as well. 



This form of division consists in making three 

 colonies out of two. Select two strong colonies, 

 and from one of them take five good frames of 

 brood. Place them in an empty hive and fill up 

 both hives with empty combs or sheets of founda- 

 tion. No bees must be taken with the brood, and 

 the hive containing it must be placed on the 

 stand of the other selected colony, moving the 

 latter to a new position. Thus the bees are 

 secured from one stock and the brood from the 

 other. In this case it will be observed that it 

 is the new colony which has to be given a queen, 

 or if necessary allowed to raise one. If it be 

 desirable the frames of brood may be taken from 

 any number of colonies up to five, when their, 

 loss will not be felt. 



We will now reverse this procedure, and turn to 



