. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 196 June, 1912 American Hm Journal a good deal while others may have very little or none. Therefore, it is advis- able to change some of the combs so that all will have about an equal share of brood,-as some nuclei might other- wise have too much brood to care for properly. This done, these supers are set on as many new bottom-boards, a cover placed on each, the whole fastened to- gether for moving, and the entrances closed with screen-wire entrance closers. A caged queen is given to each nucleus thus made. All are then loaded on a spring wagon and ha
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 196 June, 1912 American Hm Journal a good deal while others may have very little or none. Therefore, it is advis- able to change some of the combs so that all will have about an equal share of brood,-as some nuclei might other- wise have too much brood to care for properly. This done, these supers are set on as many new bottom-boards, a cover placed on each, the whole fastened to- gether for moving, and the entrances closed with screen-wire entrance closers. A caged queen is given to each nucleus thus made. All are then loaded on a spring wagon and hauled to the new place, the entrances partly opened, and left alone for a week or more, ac- cording to the time the bee-keeper has to spare. When these are nicely built up an- other super of combs is given, and you have that many divisible brood-cham- ber colonies in a new apiary. " Do It With Hired Help " That suggestion of friend Wesley Foster, in the May issue, is of greater importance than many bee-keepers can comprehend. There are too many bee- keepers who do most of their work themselves, when they could have it done much cheaper and just as well. The writer remembers when he started out to have more of the general work done by others while he attended to the business side of bee-keeping; to- ward its expansion and the improve- ment of the methods of doing things with a minimum of labor and expense, and a maximum of profits. Some bee- keepers doubted the advisability of such a venture. They seemed to think that it paid better to do the work them- selves and hire only such help as was actually needed when the bee-keeper could handle it all alone. Such a method of bee-keeping en- ables one to enlarge the business to a far greater and more profitable extent than if an attempt is made to do it alone. More apiaries can be main- tained. The bee-keeper should con- sider himself the business manager of his concern, planning his operations with a view of expanding to larg
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