Management in Bar-frame Hives. 6i 



without a bee in it. A box of shallow frames could 

 be removed in the' same manner, only, in the latter 

 case the frames of honeycomb would be uncapped, 

 and put into the extractor, as explained in a previous 

 chapter. 



Bee escapes are also (and perhaps preferably) put 

 between the super and the brood chambers (fig. 31). 

 The bees then escape downwards and cannot return. 



Fig. 31 



As the only way to get plenty of honey is to have the 

 colonies strong, and the only way to keep the colonies 

 strong is always to have a good queen in each hive, it 

 is necessary to know the way to rear queens. A 

 queen bee will live five years, but it is not of much use 



