HOUSE AND GARDEN 
M A Y, 
1912 
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are filled with combs the combs will last 
for years and become tougher with each 
season. I have some combs that have been 
in use for ten years, and they are good for 
years to come. 
Although the old hive was now de¬ 
pleted of most of its bees, yet at this time 
young bees were hatching so rapidly that it 
gave promise of soon being a full swarm. 
We got no more surplus from it, however, 
as the working force of field bees 'emerged 
with the swarm, and for this reason we 
transferred all of the storage chambers 
with the bees that were in them to the new 
hive. This was to insure their comjdetion, 
and thus we hived our swarm, and doubled 
the size of our modest apiary. 
The hived swarm having no combs in 
their new brood nest were of necessity 
forced to store most of the honey that 
came in during the next few days right 
up in the section boxes they were working 
in before swarming, and just where we. 
wanted it, so before they had built combs 
in the brood frames, our sections in the 
storage chambers were completed. 
The surplus in the storage chambers 
was not taken until the latter part of July, 
as I wanted them to receive the full benefit 
of the clovers that were in bloom at 
swarming time, and after being given to 
the new swarm, they were left there until 
the 20th of July. This is the proper time 
to take them to keep our pure white honey 
from the clover separate from the later ' 
flow from goldenrod, asters, buckwheat, 
and other fall flowers whose honey is 
darker in color, and though it is neverthe¬ 
less delicious its flavor is not as fine as 
that from the early flow. 
There is a little appliance known as a 
bee escape board that comes wdth the out¬ 
fit outlined in the beginning of this article 
that enables us to take the harvest without 
disturbing or being disturbed by the bees, 
and it was at this point I brought it into 
play. 
The little boxes with their full combs 
of honey were lifted out and empty ones 
put back into their places, and toward 
evening using a little smoke, the bee escape 
board was removed and the refilled cham¬ 
bers set on the hive again with the hive 
lid over all, ready for the fall flow that be¬ 
gins about August loth. 
Just as the first cold weather began to 
kill the goldenrod and wild asters, I 
brought the bee escape board into play 
again and took the last of the surplus 
from them. 
When I took stock I found that at the 
close of the season my single hive had 
produced just 146 finished combs weigh¬ 
ing a pound each. Besides this, I had the 
extra swarm making two hives of bees for 
wintering. 
On November loth, I took off the lids 
of the hives, and right over the tops of 
each hive I placed the chaff tray filled with 
shavings, and with the lids of the hives 
over this my bees were ready for their 
winter sleep, and required no further at- 
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