trouble. There probably will be a young queen among the last lot of bees 

 in the box-hive, and if the beekeeper has any queenless colonies this young 

 queen can be introduced where needed; otherwise take no notice of her 

 and she will probably succeed her mother in the new hive providing a 

 young queen as head of the colony. After the bees have all been drummed 

 out, remove the combs, extract the honey, render combs into beeswax and 

 use the box-hive for kindling. 



The Self Transfer Method.* 



At a time when the box-hive is crowded with bees, usually during 

 the fruit bloom and dandelion period or early June, the transfer is com- 

 menced. The beekeeper provides a hive-body containing one frame of 



A Box-Hive Apiary. 



unsealed brood, if available, placed midway between a, sufficient number 

 of frames of drawn comb or full sheets of foundation to fill the hive-body. 

 The cover of the box-hive is then removed and the new hive-body, with 

 brood and combs, or foundation, placed on top with an entrance in the 

 box-hive only. In a few days, usually, the queen will be found laying in 

 the upper or movable frame hive-body; but if foundation only is used, 

 it may be a week or two before the queen comes up. As soon as the bee- 

 keeper is sure the queen is in the upper hive-body, a queen excluder is 

 placed between the box-hive and the new hive and left there for twenty- 

 one days. When examining for the queen, it is a good plan to slip the 

 excluder between the two hive-bodies before disturbing the bees very much, 

 or the queen is liable to run below. If, on examination, it is found that 



• tfsed with great success by Mr. A. H. Guernsey, Ionia, Micliigan. 



