Frames have to regulate distance apart See F i
F See E w a
Frames. to facilitate manipulation with. See H i
Frames Movable. The 3/8 space between the frames and the sides of the hive will afford ample
passage for the warm air of the hive and for the bees into the covered way even when
the upper part of the combs in the main hive are filled with honey and made to approximate so
as to obstruct the air and the bees, they will have the most convenient way of getting up without passing
over the comb, or crowding through the bees. 
Farmer's plan. 1 2 3 4 = spring 4 2 5 6 3 1 = state when increased for
storing honey from clover. 7 4 8 5 9 3 2 5 1 = state when for buckwheat. 
The first transposition must be made [inserted: just] before swarming, say middle of May. Bees may
be driven from 2, 3 by smoke, or shaken from bars. See that only one sealed queen
is kept in 2 and 3. The later transposition must be made before the drones are killed. 
In this case half of the combs of the hive from which the bees are driven must be given
to the hives into which the bees are put. If this plan is to be pursued by one not well
versed in scientific management, it will be well to meddle not at all with the queen cells. 
Proper storage room being given, the hives will not swarm, except perhaps 2, 3
which rear the new queens. Casts from these may be united. If the apiarian is timid let
him have a sprinkler with honey or sugar water and sprinkle the bees as soon as the cover is
taken off, or a little smoke, which will not attract other bees. This much easier
than to drive out, 15 or 20 minutes will answer to a hive. In this way clover honey
may be harvested, and yet bees may be rapidly multiplied where fall food is
abundant. A fair day should be selected, a swarming day, and the whole thing
may be done up at once. If there are no Fall supplies the second transposition must
not be attempted, unless rapid multiplication is aimed at by feeding. 
The weather must be such that brood will take no chill, [crossed out: but little] a cautious
admission of air to the hive with brood until the bees from changed hive are in,
This plan united with clipping the wings of all queens as soon as they begin to lay
and removing queens, in their third summer. Removed queens might be put with
two or three combs and bees into queen palace, and used next season, when they
may be destroyed. The swarms expelled may have be driven into a box over their hives, with or
without movable frames. This may be set over the empty hive, they will build in this, raise some brood
but soon descend below. This the plan to get the most honey. May 4th Made swarms from old
[illegible] substituting in this plan, by driving.