. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. TRANSFERRING. 268 TRANSFERRING. and all perpendicularly, and slipped off the board, and hung the frame in an upper story, when honey was being gathered. An assistant was so sure that these combs could never be nice ones, that I marked them with a pencil; a few days after, when the cells had all been drawn out evenly, and filled with honey, I was very loth myself to admit that the thick, beautiful comb I held up was the mass r>f odds and ends of all colors which I had thus i>atched >ip. On
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. TRANSFERRING. 268 TRANSFERRING. and all perpendicularly, and slipped off the board, and hung the frame in an upper story, when honey was being gathered. An assistant was so sure that these combs could never be nice ones, that I marked them with a pencil; a few days after, when the cells had all been drawn out evenly, and filled with honey, I was very loth myself to admit that the thick, beautiful comb I held up was the mass r>f odds and ends of all colors which I had thus i>atched >ip. On holding it up to the light, the old ground-work could plainly be seen. AVhile such combs answer excellently for extracting, as does any kind of drone or store combs, they are not profit- able for the brood-chamber. In fact, it is doubtful if any natural combs are as profita- ble for the brood-apartment as those built on our latest improved fdn.*' On this ac- count we seldom, nowadays, save any combs in transferring, except those contain- ing brood, or the very nicest and straightest worker-eomb. The rest, alter having the honey fed out, is condemned to the wax-ex- tractor. I think the readiest way of getting this honey out is to transfer the combs and feed it out. placing it near enough the out- side of the hive, to avoid having the queen use it. It may also be placed at the other side of the division-board. If you have many weak cotonies in your apiary you may transfer a colony, and di- vide the combs and bees around among those needing it. In this way you can have the combs all fixed and disposed of very quickly. One who is expert in the b\isiness should transfer a colony in an hour, on an avc^-age; I have taken a heavy one from a box hive, and had it completely finished in 40 minutes. Where the apiarist goes away from home to do such work, the usual price is Sl.(M) for a single colony, and less for luore than one, ac- cording to the number. Some bee-keepers drum out the bee
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