CHAPTER VII 



SUGGESTIONS FOR GETTING STARTED WITH BEES 



It is usually best to seek out some beekeeper 

 as near home as possible, and buy two or three 

 colonies to be moved to the new location. If the 

 bees are not in such hives as the buyer wishes 

 to use they must be transferred with the atten- 

 dant discomfort and danger of loss of brood 

 and queen, as well as the severe setback given 

 the colony in the operation. 



The up-to-date beekeeper who cannot get 

 what he wants near home buys bees in pack- 

 ages, queens included, and places them on full 

 sheets of foundation in new hives. There is 

 a minimum of trouble and bother, while the 

 bees act much like a newly hived swarm and 

 proceed to comb building at once. By this 

 method it will be necessary to wait until there 

 is honey to be had in the fields, so that the bees 



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