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and Mowing sinohe among them. As soon as they are nearly all in — a tew may 

 be flying around, but if the queen is in the new hive they will go back to their 

 old home — remove the hive to its permanent stand. All washes are useless, it 

 is better that the hive be clean and pure. In such, if they are shaded, bees 

 will scarcely ever leave. But assurance will be made doubly sure by giving 

 them a frame of brood, in all stages of growth, from the old hive. This may 

 be inserted before the work of hiving is commenced. 



HOW TO PKEVENT SECOND SWAEMS. 



In the sequel it will appear that the wise apiarist will always have on hand 

 extra queens. ISTow, if he does not desire to form nuclei (in manner to be ex- 

 plained), and thus use these queen cells, he will at once cut them all out, and 

 destroy them, and give the old colony a fertile queen. The method of intro- 

 duction will be given hereafter, though in such cases there is very little danger 

 of giving them a queen at once. And by thoroughly smoking the bees, and 

 sprinkling with sweetened water, and daubing the new queen with honey, we 

 may be almost sure of success. If desired, the queen cells can be used in form- 

 ing nuclei, in manner to be hereafter described. In this way we save our colony 

 from being without a fertile queen for at least thirteen days, and that, too, in 

 the very height of the honey season, when time is money. If extra queens are 

 wanting, we have only to look carefully through the old hive and remove all but 

 one of the queen-cells. A little care will certainly make sure work, as, after 

 Bwarming, the old hive is so thinned of bees, that only carelessness will overlook 

 queen-cells in such a quest. 



HOW TO SECUKB EMPTY CELLS FOR THE QUEEN, EVEN IN TIMES OF THE 



GBEATEST HONEY-HAETEST. 



Although some of our most experienced apiarists say nay, it is nevertheless a 

 fact, that the queen often remains idle, or extrudes her eggs only to be lost, 

 simply because there are no empty cells. The honey yield is so great that the 

 workers occupy every available space, and sometimes even they become unwil- 

 ling idlers simply because of necessity. Seldom a year has passed but that I 

 have noticed some of my most prolific queens thus checked in duty. And when 

 I have relieved such queens from this state of enforced idleness they have always 

 showed an activity which seemed at least to betoken great warmth of gratitude. 

 In such cases the apiarist finds an invaluable aid in the 



HONEY EXTEACTOE. 



No doubt that some have expected and claimed too much for this machine. 

 It is equally true that some have blundered quite as seriously in an opposite 

 direction. For since Mr. Langstroth gave the movable frame to the world, the 

 apiarist has not been so deeply indebted to any inventor as to him, who gave us 

 the principle of the Mell Extractor Herr Von Hruschka, of Germany. Even if 

 there was no sale for extracted honey, — aye, more, even if it must be thrown 

 away, which will never be necessary, as it may always be fed to the bees with 

 profit," even then I would pronounce the extractor as invaluable to every bee- 

 keeper. 



WHAT STYLE TO BUY. 



The machine should be as light as is consistent with strength. It is best that 

 the can be stationary and that only a light frame be made to revolve with the 



