Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1876 — Bees. [ARTICLE]

Bees.

In purchasing honey bees see that you» do not obtain them within two. miles of your dwelling,, as they might tty back to their old.homeand be lest. It to just as well to get them in. the old style of box hive, and.they can be transferred to such movable comb hives as you conclude to use, after they have swarmed once, waiting fifteen to twenty days to give time for the young bees to leave their cells, or as many as possible, then transfer them. The easiest way to do thia is first to attach a few pieces of comb, to the bare ot the new hive o» one side, say on three of them, with melted beeswax, using a small brash, or a yag tied to the end of a stick will do. The operation must be Quickly performed to-make the comb adhere well. Next you should apply a thick coat of wax. to the extreme lower edges of the other bars, which should be made of tile shape of an. inverted A or a V; but the angle may be less acute. This shape, if the lower part, be waxed a half an inch on each side, will cause the bees to build their cembe evenly upon them. Now you are ready to transfer your bees. In the fomoon of a warm day turn your old box hive bottom up, and set upon lt>an| empty hive of the same siae and shape, or any box made to fit well. Then tie * - cloth around where the two hives connect, so as to exclude the light: then ran 4 smartly upon the lower hive with a rack in each hand for twenty minutes, by winch time the queen and most of the bee# will have gone up into the box above; then place your new hive upon a sheet, either where the old hive stood before driving out the bees, or directly in front oi its place, raise the from edge two or three inches, then by a sudden Jar dieted® all the tees in front of it, and they Wl all enter it, also those that were in the fields, and take some of the Comte in the gd new hive on the MW raiMHW: te aud a 1 w