204 ^ Modern Bee-Farm 



alone in his endeavour to show that foundation was used in 

 many cases at a loss. 



W. Z. Hutchinson took up Doolittle's idea, and has been 

 ■the cause of the plan becoming more generally used : but not 

 only does the complaint come that much drone comb is 

 built, but also that 



Pollen is Stored in the Sections. 



The latter trouble also I learned to avoid when hiving swarms 

 upon full sheets of foundation in my endeavour to get the best ■; 

 work started in the sections. Just as I hived swarms upon 

 foundation (when made by division), I now put them upon 

 starters, with the addition of two combs of brood ; one with 

 uncapped larvae, and the other having brood hatching. Thus 

 the bees have room to store the pollen carried the first day or 

 two, without spoiling the partly finished sections when they 

 happen to be removed from the old stock to the swarm ; and 

 what is of equal importance, there is just sufficient brood to . 

 make up for wear and tear before a general hatching would 

 otherwise take place. Moreover the queeii is kept below 

 without the useless and expensive addition of the excluder zinc 

 Mr. Hutchinson is obliged to use where starters only are 

 given under the sections. 



My plan is not to throw the bees entirely into the sections 

 as soon as they are hived, but simply to prevent the produc- 

 tion of an excess of brood in the height of the season, and 

 with the two combs of brood so arranged the colony is worth 

 wintering after the season is over ; whereas in the other case 

 several have to be united to get a fair stock. But, I am told, the 

 bees will not work in the sections with so much room belo-w; ! 

 Have I not already shown how full stocks will do so with 

 plenty of room under or in front of the stock combs ? And if 

 your bees will not go into the supers, when they are strong 

 enough and honey is to be had, do not wait for their pleasure, 

 "but put them in by either of two ways. 



