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Uniting with the Nucleus, 



only those combs most crowded with brood should be used. The 

 odd combs of brood can be given to one or more lots left at home. 

 Some reader may say that his hives are crowded when his bees go 

 to the moors. They may be, but like the queen such bees are 

 already exhausted by their previous labours, and new blood is 

 required throughout if one wishes to make the most of this last 

 important harvest. 



If necessary feed " from hand to mouth " after uniting, until 

 time for the heather, but on no account feed heavily, as advised 

 recently by a correspondent in the British Bee Journal, who 

 hoped thereby to fill up the space the old queen could not occupy, 

 and so expecting that the heather honey would all go above, and 

 that when the bees came home they would require no more 

 feeding. True indeed, for there would be no bees to require it 

 How utterly inconsistent, to add wear and tear, when the whole 

 energy of our workers should be reserved for the storage of honey ! 

 And how very injudicious to crowd the queen out at the very time 

 we require one that will still further extend the brood nest in 

 preparation for the good time near at hand. 



■When Moving to the Heather, 



everything should be got ready and loaded on the vans over- 

 night, and if not desirable to travel during the night the journey 

 ought not to be delayed later than 3.0 a.m. Upon reaching their 

 destination the hives should be treated as before shown after a 

 journey. 



The Supers should Travel separated 



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

 the bees have been liberated. Each stock should have an extra 

 cliamber for better ventilation, and all openings for the admission 

 of air must be shaded, so that there may be as little excitement as 

 possible to exhaust the bees. 



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