ALEXANDER’S WRITINGS ON PRACTICAL BEE CULTURE 48 
in honey, and, consequently, scant of brood, and its foundation very 
poorly drawn out. I do not put the new hive under the old one. The 
object to be gained is to draw all that is good in the old hive into the 
new one as soon as possible; and from our experience we find the above 
to be the better way. 
March, 1908. 
