33^ A Modern Bee-Farm 



The Supers should Travel Separated 



from the hives, and be arranged in position on the next 

 day after the bees have been liberated, or on the same day 

 as soon as the bees are settled, if inconvenient to attend 

 next day. Each stock should have an extra chamber for 

 better ventilation, and all openings for the admission of 

 air must be shaded, so that there may be as little excite- 

 ment as possible to exhaust the bees. 



My •* Tenth " Hetbod 



of providing a young queen for every hive yearly, uniting 

 at the right time ; i.e., before feeding up where there is no 

 late harvest, or just before a late gathering is expected, 

 will also prove invaluable in many places in the States of 

 America and other localities where the gathering of stores 

 so late as September, and sometimes in October, leaves the 

 bees totally unfit to stand the rigours of winter, through 

 the queen that has been used all the season failing to 

 keep up the necessary supply of young bees. 



The young queens are not to be raised before July, 

 while in some instances it may be desirable to have them 

 come on in August when the last flow is extra late. 



After uniting, the capacity of ten or eleven standard 

 brood frames only should be allowed during the late 

 harvest, and no empty chamber will be required under or 

 in front of the same, as no swarms will issue with the young 

 queens. 



Another Plan. 



Where one will not take the trouble to raise young 

 queens for the purpose, and desires to make use of the 

 heather honey stored in the stock combs, such must be 

 removed one or two at a time and placed in another 

 chamber below the brood nest after having the cappings 



