CHAPTER 20 V1. 
TRANSFERRING BEES. 
S some of my readers may have bees in ordinary 
hives, which they would like to transfer to the 
Controllable Hive, I will devote a chapter to Trans- 
ferring. 
If you have bees in a box or patent hive, or any of the 
thousand and one bee hive humbugs, which are of little 
or no profit, and cause you much trouble and perplexity 
in swarming time, and frequent and heavy losses in win- 
ter, you can move them into Controliable Hives—comb, 
honey and bees together—and manage them on the plan 
here recommended, and they will winter well, come out 
strong and healthy in the spring, and cause comparatively 
no trouble in swarming time, yielding you a good profit 
yearly. 
The best time to transfer is as early in spring as the 
weather becomes warm enough to keep the bees active 
every day, which in the New England States is usually 
inApril. Itis a good time to transfer about twenty-four 
days after the first swarm issues from a stock as at that 
time there is but little brood, and usually but few bees. 
October is a very good time to transfer, but not as good 
as either of the times before mentioned. Great care is 
