1 20 A Modern Bee-Farm 



The whole tier should now be shifted to a new location, one 

 storey at a time, and then give the swarm (made as before) the 

 eggs for queen raising ; this time an upper storey of combs or 

 foundation is to be added, besides filling up below as the much 

 larger number of bees will probably store heavily. The moved 

 stock will still have sufficient bees to care for the brood, the 

 extent of which will now be immensely increased, as there are 

 not enough gatherers left to crowd the queen out, though before 

 shifting the hive the apiarist should have been able to give the 

 queen plenty of room by alternating brood combs with founda- 

 tion as the upper stories were added, and extracting if necessary. 



On the ninth day after setting the eggs, make up a nucleus 

 with the queen (of the moved lot), this time standing the same 

 by the hive, to be returned after forming the nuclei in a manner 

 similar to that before mentioned, standing a nucleus by each' of the 

 full hives working for honey, to be united to them in the autumn. 



By waiting till the date named more than sufficient nuclei can 

 be made up, while the original queen will have a full hive of bees 

 to build up with again, and thus provide against loss, and have 

 combs of eggs to spare for the nuclei. 



Doolittle's Queen Cell Protector 



will be found invaluable where a large number of cells are to be 

 made use of. It is made of woven wire, rather larger than an 

 average cell, and when one is inserted the point only is exposed, 

 giving the queen just room to bite her way out ; the sides of the 

 cell being protected from the attacks of the bees, as it is there 

 that they generally begin to tear it open, if not approved of. 

 The cage with the enclosed cell hangs down between two frames, 

 just as I have always found it most convenient to give naked 

 cells, and requires no other fixture. I consider this the best way 

 to give them, if, as the originator states, the cells are inserted 

 when not more than two days from hatching. 

 Nevertheless, for my own purposes I prefer to 



Give Virgin Queens only, 



and have quite given up the insertion of cells. A better selec- 



