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a full-sized colony will be built and if there is a good honey-flow 

 at that season of the year, one may expect some surplus honey. 



Transferring to Movable-Frame Hives. When bees have 

 been purchased in box-hives, it is necessary to transfer them^ to 

 the movable-frame hive. This may be done by the following 

 method: Set the box-hive aside and'put in its place the new hive, 

 filled with frames containing full sheets of foundation. Smoke 

 the bees thoroly and knock the box to pieces, first removing one 

 side. Cut out the combs and shake the bees upon a piece of 

 canvas or a sheet of newspaper, in front of the entrance of the 

 new hive. It is very important that the cpieen be with the bees. 

 The queen and the bees will then crawl into the new hive and 

 begin working just as a new swarm. The old combs, if crowded 

 or diseased should be melted up and the honey and wax used. 

 If no disease is present, the comb containing brood and honey 

 may be cut to fit the frames of the new hive and held in place 

 by strings or rubber bands. This will save the bees the delay 

 of having to build new combs. Transfers can be made as early 

 as fruit blooming period, selecting a warm day for the work. 

 If this transfer is made at the time when there is a scarcity of 

 honey flow and the new hive contains only frames of founda- 

 tion, the bees should be fed a thin sugar s}-rup made by dissolv- 

 ing sugar in warm water, two parts of water to one of sugar. 



I III porta lire of Good (Queens. Success in honey production, 

 swarm control and wintering depends upon young and vigorous 

 queens. Queens may be purchased from beekeepers who make 

 a specialty in queen raising. For general purposes, the "un- 

 tested" queens are usually satisfactory and directions for the 

 introduction of the queens are printed on the mailing cases used 

 in sending them. A common practis among beekeepers is to re- 

 queen every two years, from the best colony in the apiary. This 

 can be done by transferring a frame of brood containing ripe 

 queen-cells from the best colony to the one to be re-queeued, 

 first making the colony queenless, twenty -four hours before giv- 

 ing the ripe queen-cells. 



Location of Apianj. Bees thrive best in the open but in a 



