. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 134 THE BEITISH BEE JOUENAL. [April 22, 1915. division boards so that bees cannot get out. Allow the bees to work down, and as soon as you find larvse in the bottom combs, make certain the queen is there, and place a queen excluder between them and the shallow combs in the usual way. In about twenty-two days all the brood will be out of the shallow combs and the bees established below. [9005].—Receiving Combs.—I shall be glad to know when you think it desirable to put new combs into hives. Should 1 do so when I go through them for the firs
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 134 THE BEITISH BEE JOUENAL. [April 22, 1915. division boards so that bees cannot get out. Allow the bees to work down, and as soon as you find larvse in the bottom combs, make certain the queen is there, and place a queen excluder between them and the shallow combs in the usual way. In about twenty-two days all the brood will be out of the shallow combs and the bees established below. [9005].—Receiving Combs.—I shall be glad to know when you think it desirable to put new combs into hives. Should 1 do so when I go through them for the first time ? I have not done so yet, owing to cold winds; and am I to put them into the centre and take away some outside ones, and how many new ones in each?— A. P. Reply.—It is an excellent plan to renew two or three combs in each hive every year. Remove, say, two combs when pack- ing up for the winter, choosing the oldest, or any that are malformed, or con- tain too much drone-comb. If this was not done last autumn, do it now. If they contain honey the cappings may be bruised and the combs placed behind the division board, which must be packed up to allow the bees to pass underneath and clean out the honey. The combs may then be taken away, cut out of the frames and burnt, or melted down for the wax, their place being taken by a new sheet of foundation, or, what is still better, replace the frame with a new one as well. The new foundation sliould be given to the bees when they need more room; give one frame at a time next to one of the out- side combs of brood. Do not on any account divide the brood nest with a sheet of foundation, or an empty comb, so early in the season. Correspondents desiring an answer in the next issue should send questions to reach this office NOT LATER than the FIRST POST on MONDAY MORNING. Only SPECIALLY URGENT ques- tions will be replied to by post if a STAMPED addressed envelope is enclosed. All questions must be accompanied by the sender's nam
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