HINTS ON WORKING THE BEES 73 
working standard frames from the _ brood- 
chamber as a super by which each _ hive 
is practically made into two—a queenless 
colony above and a brood stock below. I 
have tried pretty well all the systems used in 
England and have proved this to be the 
most successful in securing the purpose aimed 
at. For thereby the queen is given plenty 
of room in which to lay her eggs, and the 
bees plenty of accommodation in which to 
store their honey. 
The method of working this plan is as 
follows. The bees should be stimulated in 
the spring and as soon as the weather is 
favourable to swarming the strongest hive 
should be examined. It the frames are seen 
to be covered by the bees, and almost full 
of brood or stores, everything is in order for 
the scheme. The essential point in it is the 
removal of the combs from the brood-cham- 
ber minus the queen. 
A super of the same size as the brood- 
chamber should be prepared and a similar 
number of frames to those already in the 
brood-chamber duly fitted with empty combs 
or a sheet of foundation. The first frame is 
then removed from the brood-chamber, the 
bees shaken from it and placed in a super. 
