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PEARCE METHOD OP BEE-KEEPING 



A little German straw hive in the High School, which is of value to 

 show how small a hive was formerly used. One of our large swarms in 

 our large hive would fill this little hive in two days on a good flow and 

 be obliged to swarm out. In this cut we show the mothod of transferring 

 from small Old Style German hive to removable frame hive above, giving 

 more room to bees and making them produce straight combs. 



CHAPTER XII 

 Transferring Bees from One Hive to Another. 



When I first kept bees, if we wished to get bees out of 

 an irregular hive into one of modern make, the only way we 

 knew of was to break open the irregular hive and cut out the 

 best of the combs and fasten them into the frames of the 

 new hives, but this was a mussy job and anything but nice, 

 and these combs fitted the new hive but poorly and were 

 more or less uneven. Then came the Alexander plan of 

 transferring by placing the new hive on top of the one we 

 wished to get the bees out of and in a short time the queen 

 would go up and commence to lay in this hive and then we 

 could slip a queen excluder between the old and the new hive 



