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Ihc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 2, 1924 
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TS YOURS one of the 
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Method of Queen Raising 
There are a number of ways to raise 
good queens artificially, but I will give 
the way which I believe will be the most 
liable to succeed with the beginner, and 
this should be used only when there is 
plenty of honey coming in, until one has 
learned how to feed the breeding colony. 
Of course, select your best queen for 
breeder, or get a card of eggs from some 
nearby beeman who has superior bees. 
We proceed as follows: Take out a card 
of brood from your best colony and put 
in an empty comb or sheet of foundation, 
and if there is a honey flow coming m 
you will find plenty of eggs in 24 hours. 
Now within two days of the time the first 
egg was laid go to some very strong col¬ 
ony and take away the queen and all the 
brood, and replace with empty combs. 
Do this about 9 o’clock in the morning. 
About 3 p. m. get the card of eggs from 
your breeder and cut through the middle 
lengthwise. Now with a little stick or a 
match destroy two out of every three 
eggs along the whole length of the comb 
where you have cut through. Hang this 
in the center of the colony you had pre¬ 
pared in the morning. If you have se¬ 
lected a good strong colony with plenty 
of young bees (which are the nurse bees) 
you will be liable to find 20 or more fine 
cells. Remember these will begin to 
hatch in 16 days from the time the first 
egg was laid. It will be the safest way 
to find a place for these cells on the four¬ 
teenth day, as bad weather may inter¬ 
vene, and if left on the hive even a few 
minutes after the first queen hatches she 
is liable to begin destroying them. You 
can use these cells in nuclei, or kill some 
old queen 24 hours before giving the cell, 
or use queen cell protectors. In this way 
you can kill the old queen and give the 
cell immediately. Use the utmost care in 
handling cells so qs not to injure the 
queen within, as the least little dent may 
do her serious injury. G. w. b. 
Transferring Bees to New 
Hive 
I have seen the answer from G. W. B. 
to T. H. M. on page 755 about a swarm 
of bees. I have four old box hives and 
wish to transfer them. How long will it 
take for the queen to lay eggs in the new 
hive, and at what time to put m the 
honey board? We have three hives so 
high we have to tie them to keep them 
from blowing over; about 14 in. square 
bv 3 to 3y 2 ft- high. Could I lay them 
down and cut a hole in the side to set a 
new hive on? D - B - 
Preston, Md. 
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The idea of getting the bees and queen 
to work up into another case and then 
slipping a queen-excluding honey board 
between, is known as the Heddon or short 
method of transferring, and where it can 
be used it eaves some labor and a rather 
sticky and disagreeable job, and keeps all 
of the bees working contentedly together 
in one hive, while transferring them¬ 
selves, and they are far more liable to se¬ 
cure a good crop of honey than where 
some other method is used; or that is our 
experience. It might not work promptly 
with an old played-out queen, or a very 
poor location or season, but we have used 
it successfully lots of times. 
We have never used it on so large a 
hive as D. B. speaks of, hut if w’e had 
the job to do would try at least one hive, 
as follows : Cut the comb free from one 
side with a handsaw ; an ordinary hand¬ 
saw is about 2 ft. long. Now turn the 
hive down and cut aci’oss as far up as the 
combs are; cut free and pry or chisel off 
this piece, and then put on the case ; tack 
on stripe to make a tight fit around the 
case; also over the bottom of the old hive, 
just leaving space enough for the bees to 
enter. If emptv combs could be secured, 
it will work much better than foundation 
to entice them above. We have used this 
method on box hives by cutting off the 
top and fitting on the case, but in these 
very large and tall hives I should expect 
to find a barrier of honey there, which 
might keep the queen from going up 
promptly. 
Transferring should be done as early 
as possible; we prefer to do it during 
fruit bloom when beee are strong enough 
so as to have them in shape for the main 
flow. However, it can be done any time 
there is plenty of honey coming in. 
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