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ment in a dark place will generally change their 
will in this respect. Enlarge each hive by adding 
an empty frame to the central part as often as the 
bees can properly occupy and fill them. When 
three or more queens are wintered in one hive, 
holes may be made in the frames at the sides of 
the hive alternately for the bees when required, 
and ventilation may be secured by slightly separat¬ 
ing the frames when necessary. These boards may 
also be used in the form of screens for excluding 
the queen from the honey compartment, for 
separating the young queen and drones from the 
worker bees while confined for copulation, or for 
excluding the drones, etc. 
To protect the combs from the caterpillars dur¬ 
ing warm weather after being taken from the bees, 
put them into a tight box or barrel, and destroy the 
worms with brimstone. To do this, saturate strips 
of cotton rags with melted brimstone and place 
them in the box or barrel on something that will 
not burn, and set them on fire, covering them close¬ 
ly for an hour. If too much brimstone is burned 
it will color the combs green, and if not enough 
the worms will not be killed To determine this 
examine the combs often. Bees collect honey from 
a great many kinds of blossoms and other sources. 
These honey resources vary greatly in different lo¬ 
calities often but a few miles apart, and in the 
same locality in different years. All beekeepers 
should be familiar with the honey resources of the 
locality in which their bees are kept, and manage 
them accordingly. The white clover is one of the 
principal sources of surplus honey in many sections 
of the country. This usually blooms near the 40th 
degree of latitude about the first of June, and lasts* 
