820 TALL MANAGEMENT. 



oircumstance, that all moth eggs and worms are frozen 

 to death, and the bees are not troubled with a single 

 worm before June. No young bees have to be re- 

 moved to work them out. Nearly every young bee 

 that is fed and sealed up, comes forth perfect, and of 

 course makes a vast difference in the increase. 



SWARMS PARTtT YttLBD PAY BETTER THAN TO CUT OUT THE 

 HONEY. 



Any person wishing to increase his stocks to the 

 utmost, will find this plan of saving all part-filled 

 hives, of much more advantage than to break it out 

 for sale. Suppose you have an old stock that needs 

 pruning, and have neglected it, or it has refused to 

 swarm, and give you a chance without destroying too 

 much brood. You can let it be, and put on the 

 boxes ; perhaps get twenty-five pounds of cap honey ; 

 and then winter the bees as described, and in the 

 spring transfer them to the new combs. Again, if 

 there is no stocks to be transferred in the spring, keep 

 them till the swarming season. If a swarm put into 

 an empty hive would just fill it, the same swarm put 

 into one containing fifteen pounds of honey, it seems 

 plain, would make that number of poands in boxes. 

 The advantage is, in the comparative value of box or 

 cap honey over that stored in the hive ; the difference 

 being from thirty to a hundred per cent. 



ADVANTAGES IN TRANSFERRING. 



I would now like to show the advantages I derived 

 in transferring the twenty swarms before mentioned. 



