190 miner's AMERICAN 



CASE IN WHICH A TRANSFER FROM OLD TO NEW COMBS 

 MAY BE EFFECTED. 



If it should happen, that the new combs in a collateral 

 box, or even in any other, whether placed above or be- 

 low, should be regularly constructed ; that is, such as are 

 used for brood-combs only, and devoid of those ill- 

 shapen, thick store-combs, that generally occupy all 

 extra room afforded the bees, in such a case, it would be 

 safe to effect a transfer from old to new combs, on the 

 " subtended" plan, which I so emphatically condemn. 

 There is no general rule without its exceptions ; and 

 cases may occur in which a transfer may be safely made, 

 if it be done in a manner that will not endanger the 

 safety of the queen. The regular drone-cells would be 

 lacking, but the bees would change, or cut down a por- 

 tion of the store-cells, for the production of drones in the 

 following spring. I do not wish to be understood as fa- 

 voring this system at all, except in cases where we know 

 that no injurious consequences can arise, which are not 

 likely to occur. 



ONLY ONE SUPER TO BE PUT ON AT A TIME. 



In placing hives over each other, it is best to place 

 but one super at a time, and when that is filled, place 

 another box in its position, and raise the first one over 

 it. The bees, in this case, having filled the upper one, 

 and that box probably containing some larvae, they will 

 still adhere to it to some extent ; and the spare room, 

 being afforded between two bodies of bees, is sooner oc- 



