. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1909. American IBee Journal gets into the cage before the hive is ready, pick the cage up and set it on the open end, as the cage at the right. Now after the swarm is in the new hive, take an entrance-block and put it on the entrance of the old hive. (See hive at the left.) Turn the little piece of excluder to one side of the l4-inch hole (which is the entrance) and leave it thus for g days. Now remove the supers from the old hive and set them to one side. Then pick up the new hive which has the swarm, and set it on top of the old hive. Now set
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1909. American IBee Journal gets into the cage before the hive is ready, pick the cage up and set it on the open end, as the cage at the right. Now after the swarm is in the new hive, take an entrance-block and put it on the entrance of the old hive. (See hive at the left.) Turn the little piece of excluder to one side of the l4-inch hole (which is the entrance) and leave it thus for g days. Now remove the supers from the old hive and set them to one side. Then pick up the new hive which has the swarm, and set it on top of the old hive. Now set the supers on top of the escape-board, which is next to the new hive. Then put up the run- way board and fasten it to the bottom- board of the new hive with small wire hooked over nail-heads, which are on the bottom-board and run-way for this purpose. (See hive to left.) In from 24 to 48 hours the escape-board can be removed and the bees will continue work in the supers. The reason for using the escape is to keep the queen out of the sections, and to force the bees out of the supers into the new hive, so there will be a larger force of bees to draw out the frames of foundation. At the end of 9 days turn the little piece of queen-excluder around over the entrance of the old hive, as there is danger of a virgin queen leaving the lower entrance, and going in at the upper entrance and causing trouble. At the right, leaning on the side of the swarm-cage, is an entrance-block, show- ing queen-cell protector in place, wliich is also put on over the entrance at the end of 9 days. The excluder will pre- vent the virgin queens coming out, but will allow the worker-bees to pass. The cell-protector will also allow the workers to pass, never to return to the lower hive, but on returning from the field, heavily laden, must enter the top en- trance, as the brood is now all sealed. The bees will all enter the top-hive, as fast as they become fielders. The run- way board is used to-obstruct th
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