was deemed unlawful then to place hives nearer your neighbor than 
300 feet. 
Improving the stock in an apiary is very easy, as there are many 
queen breeders all over the United States, and queens can be mailed 
to you by first class mail. In this way the queen bee and her retinue 
in their tiny cage, come to your very door by the fastest and surest 
method. A bee-keeper can easily change the whole character of an 
apiary by introducing pure bred queens. If he kills a Black queen 
and introduces a Golden Italian queen, it will be almost a month before 
any yellow bees appear. At first there will seem very few, then, as 
the days pass they will increase in number and the Blacks decrease 
until all the bees in that hive are yellow. A beginner in apiculture 
should not attempt this, unless under the personal supervision of 
one who has had practical experience. 
After the hive of bees is bought it is necessary to get the following 
equipment: — 
I Pair of bee gloves 
I Black veil 
I Smoker, a devise for blowing smoke 
1 Hive tool, (a screw driver will do.) 
I Extra hive complete, ready to house a swarm should the new 
hive of bees cast one. 
3 Supers, with section boxes, each box with a full sheet of 
foundation. 
A super is an additional story to the hive and is where the honey 
we eat is stored. The lower part of the hive is called the hive body, 
and in it the queen lives, and deposits her eggs in some of the wax 
cells, the worker bees deposit honey in the cells surrounding those 
with the eggs in them. This is to insure food close at hand when the 
young bee emerges from her cell. In the super there are no eggs, only 
honey. 
A section box is one of those Kttle wooden boxes that comb honey 
comes in. 
A sheet of foundation is a thin piece of bees-wax, pressed by ma- 
chinery into hexagonal markings. On this foundation, the bees build 
their comb on each side. This insures a perfect comb and a more 
saleable article, than when the bees build combs without foundation. 
If you should Hve in a neighborhood of many fruit trees, your bees 
may gather a surplus crop of honey from the orchards and you will 
have to place a super on your hive at the time the orchards are in 
bloom, or your bees will not have sufiicient room and will swarm. 
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