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CHIPS FROM THE MONET HOUSE. 
Tn ilu this successfully queen* *h‘‘ 
reared and ready to furnish paid 
yith a fertile queen at lime of iWm- 
ing such colonies; the line- saved in breed¬ 
ing is very important. 
TO JlKAfl iJtrKK.VA. 
Form n tnicleua from your strongest 
stocks, Italian* if you have them, select a 
comb containing cupped brood onrl plenty 
of eggs and young lame, look il over care¬ 
fully lest the old queen is on it, now cut 
one-third nr one half the lower part nut of 
this oumb, this gives the bee* muni to build 
rolls on lower edge, a convenient place Tor 
the operator to remove them, when forming 
other nuclei. Place this with its adhering 
bees in an empty hive, and nest to it uthe 
comb (loiilitimiig honey and lice bread, this 
affords food and protect ion. Give the 
nucleus hive at least a quart rtf bees, and 
set it on a new stand ami coniine the bees 
therein until the next morning. Then con¬ 
tract the entrance mi that but one or two 
bees can pass out at thn sntna time They 
will usually build six or ten or mure celfs 
on the eighth or ninth day afrer the nucleus 
was formed. Then upon arnl with a vt-rv 
tliin-bladcd knife cut out all the cells but 
one, and use them immediately in Tunning 
other nuclei, by attaching each to a frame 
of comb and bees taken from an old stock 
as before described, and placed in an 
empty hive. In transferring queen cells 
Care must be taken not to expose them to 
cold or heat, or to denting the cell. Leave 
about nn iaeh square of comb at base af 
cell and iimcrt it among the young brood. 
Never leave a nucleus hive destitute id 
young brood after the young queen Imtohos, 
as the bees arc very’apt to abandon the 
hive when tlm young quean goes out tn 
meet the drones. Now watch and rare for 
the young queena mail they become fertile. 
WHEN AND IIOW TO MV.titII TIIK ludtl. 
When your atoeku are strong und you 
are ready tu form new colonics, first, 
cage your young queen, limn from 
bei of old stocks take .suflicmmi frames 
and bees to form a good colony of bees 
close up the new swarm until the next 
morning, then open it, and on the second 
or third evening liberate the queen. Vuu 
can continue in thin manner until you have 
such increase as vou desire, but j„' B || v<11|[ 
operations use plenty of smoke. 
Again, the forwarduv.. of the , w ,i 
must I,a your gu.de as io tone to form your 
colonies. 1 f.u cun rest queens early an 1 
keep them in readiness; a oiiony of bee* 
without fertile queen build mostly 
comb. The beekeeper that rears queen* 
lor ins new colonies must have 
for the season ready early. ]Jj„ 
not in the number of colonies he can hav 
hand, it is not bees we want, it ,* h 0 . K ., 
'* "*•' - $«»t number of work. 
;in each hive. The apiary should have the 
j cheerful my of the morning sun. A very 
good way to check robbing is to place a 
j bunch of grass or wet hay over the entrance 
j to the hive. The bpes will find the way to 
own hives, but robbers will he caught 
uld be by the sentinels while passing through the 
new J grass. The moth is a scavenger which 
comes to clean up the wieck of the negii 
gent bee keeper. 
TWELVE FACTS FOR BEGINNERS. 
Mn. EniToit:—I will offer for publioalii 
few facts which every bee-keeper ought 
to know: 
I. That the life of a worker bee, during 
the working season, is only from si 
eight weeks' duration, and that a large 
majority of them never live to see srv. 
weeks 
-■ That a worker bee is from five tu s 
days old before it cotnes out of the hive fi 
the lust time to take an airing, and that ii 
is from fourteen to sixteen days old before 
it begins to gather either honey or pollen. 
That all swarms engaged in building 
comb, when they have not a fertile queen, 
build only drone comb, and that all the 
ciimb in the lower or breeding apartment 
brood comb, except a 
all quantity uf drone comb, four 
inches square being amply sufficient. 
4. That the more prolific the quean is 
tlm more young bees you have, and the 
more surplus honey will be gathered, other 
things being equal. 
b. That y, 
numbs out o 
vou should 
molded. 
That you ought never to double 
swarms or stocks of bees in the Fall be¬ 
come you ought to attend to that and make 
them strong during the Summer by taking 
biood from strong stocks and - 
the weaker. 
should be worker o 
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PLUMBER, 
Steam and Gas Fitter, 
metal roofing, 
One Door below Spring St., on First, 
Los :f.\-<:/ rr.s, C.ir, 
THE 
Poultry World 
Mrmuiij',1 and 
The American Poultry yard, 
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nine, 
tier* qf 
J PM-vr* 
wis, irli'l f,,r 
Real Estate for Sale I 
- Irrigable) for 
H.nl ’• Al “OH 
H. S. ORIV1E, M. D., 
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ABSTR ACT O FFICE 
W. H. 
H. RUSSELL, 
U .3 .ille,,-* lllork. 
COR. SPRING & TEMPLE STS . LOS ANGELES. 
'hat yon ought never to cut moldy Mttefri* and comptew^hitmol* ao.t Ceritilcaie* 
out of the hives, Tor the reason that w^ei^eaMuy. 0 |m,mptly ,,,rnlsl,pj ' 
allow it tu become --- 
TRIE QTJEE3ST 
I giving it to 
It 
Wd *■> «“* 
-- soon as an Kalian 
quoen shows signs of old age nr feclil« neM , 
Urn bet's themselves will supercede her. 
. J ’ J 1 '*' “I 1 t -’ l, lunic» should he kept strong 
in order tu be successful. H * 
8bm iwo thousand cubic inches in the 
breading department 
11 That bogir.r* In l,e«.keeping »),uuhl 
be very' own.> -bout incasing tl„, riurn . 
b> r of their swarm* or stock rapidly until 
they thorougldy understand t| lo business. 
U. Thai the Jove ,t* e |f, jf Wu || oon . 
Mrneeaa .» | * rueted, is all the bee-house you need in 
the Summer season. 
■ . r V 1 • f, - t lim,: 1 «* v « you my method 
none|of how to get good queen cell*; at some 
104 Main Street, 
Has the LARGEST and most SKLEUT 
Stock at the Lowest Trices. 
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