. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 314 American Vee Jonrnal Even if it has no brood, merely honey and pollen, it will do. You will fill up the old hive with drawn combs or frames filled with foundation, and you will also put one of these in the vacant space left in the hive- body. Now put the queen in the old hive, place an excluder over the hive, and the hive-body with brood-conibs over the ex-t cluder. The bees will not swarm, but will turn those combs of brood into extracting cuinbs. 2. About 17 days, more or less. Uniting—Transferring I. I liave S colonies in box hivts. This winter
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 314 American Vee Jonrnal Even if it has no brood, merely honey and pollen, it will do. You will fill up the old hive with drawn combs or frames filled with foundation, and you will also put one of these in the vacant space left in the hive- body. Now put the queen in the old hive, place an excluder over the hive, and the hive-body with brood-conibs over the ex-t cluder. The bees will not swarm, but will turn those combs of brood into extracting cuinbs. 2. About 17 days, more or less. Uniting—Transferring I. I liave S colonies in box hivts. This winter 1 am going to 'buy modern frame hives, into which I wish to transfer my bees. As three colonies are weak I wish to kill these and get all the honey they have. You say a strong colony will winter better than a weak one. If that is so, would it pay to unite those three with some others, anil when lliey have united put a bee-escape be- tween them, and when they have all gone down take the top off and get the honey and render the old combs into wax? 2. Will the following plan work well for transferring? Say, I have five colonies in box hives and" wish to transfer and I go to n hive to be transferred and smoke and drum out all of the bees into the frame hive ex- cept some to care for the brood that is in the hive at this time, which we suppose is in May or June; after which I set the old hive for, say, five days with its entrance closed over the frame hive and with a wire cloth between. After five days I replace the wire cloth with a queen excluder, which 1 let stay for fifteen days, or one day before all the brood is hatched, then I put on an escape-board in its place; and when they have all gone down, take the old hive off, save all the good combs and melt the others. 3. T)o you think that a company can af- ford to sell a good two-story hive fitted with two comb-honey suners and one brood-cham- ber for $ in flat? Nortti Carolina. Answers—1. Yes, that will work all ri
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