lo BEE-FARMING. 



use a few joiner's tools, soon make as many as you require 

 for your apiary. Others prefer to buy from some maker,, 

 and perhaps our readers will expect me to recommend a. 

 maker, but it would be wrong of me to recommend one 

 before another. Try them, as I have done ; procure their 

 catalogue, or, what is better still, correspond with them y 

 you will find them honourable men and most willing to give 

 any information about hives, &c. 



Having settled in our minds that wooden hives are in. 

 many respects superior to straw, then we must work the 

 bar-frame hives ; but first ask yourself this question, when 

 commencing bee-keeping, " Shall I work them so as to 

 have a fair quantity of good super honey every season, or do 

 I wish to increase my income from this source" ? In th s 

 latter case it will be better not to work them for supers. 



Many persons who are in good circumstances keep 

 bees for their own amusement ; in this case they do not 

 care whether they derive any profit or not ; but, on the 

 other hand, there are thousands, such as cottagers and 

 agricultural labourers, who keep bees to procure a few 

 extra blankets for the coming winter — in other words,, 

 they wish to make as much money by them as possible. 



If you purpose keeping bees for amusement more than 

 profit, and wish to make for your own table a little pure 

 honey in the comb, then use only the ordinary bar-frame 

 hives, which contain ten frames. When they exhibit signs 

 of swarming, place a super, such as a neat bell-glass, on the 

 top of the hive; the bees will immediately take to this,, 

 and, if the honey harvest is abundant, they will soon fill it 

 with honey. 



But those who keep bees, hoping to make a profit from 

 them, I would strongly recommend not to attempt to work 

 supers on their hives, but to follow my plan ; think not of 

 working supers, which are the common fashion of these 

 days, but hive a large swarm in a bar-frame hive. For 



