164 A Modern Bee-Farm 



My " Tenth " Method 



of providing a young queen for every hive yearly; uniting at the 

 right time ; i.e., before feeding up where there is no late harvest, 

 or just before a late gathering is expected, will also prove 

 invaluable in many places in the States of America and other 

 places where the gathering of stores so late as September, and 

 sometimes in October, leaves the bees totally unfit to stand the 

 rigours of winter, through the queen that has been used all the 

 season failing to keep up the necessary supply of young bees. 



The young queens are not to be raised before July, while in 

 some instances it may be desirable to have them come on in 

 August when the last flow is extra late. 



After uniting, the capacity of ten or eleven standard frames 

 only should be allowed at this date, and no empty chamber will 

 be required under or in front of the same, as no swarms will 

 issue with the young queens. 



Another Plan. 



Where one will not take the trouble to raise young queens for 

 the purpose, and desires to make use of the heather honey stored 

 in the stock combs, such must be removed one or two at a time 

 and placed in another chamber below the brood nest after having 

 the cappings sliced off, when the stores will be carried above 

 provided the sections are filled, not with foundation, but combs 

 already drawn out. In long hives such removed combs should 

 be placed behind the division board. 



