means, if it be possible, chop the nest out as the tree stands. In chopping, when you come to the nest, with a little care, you will be able to secure the brood combs without breakage. Remember the young brood in the comb is the most important factor in the nest; that is if you are intending to strengthen your apiary. True, dirty and as full of foul matter as it may be, the honey is useful to feed back to your bees for winter storage. I have seen more than once, in chopping the bees from a log, when the nest is reached, that very few bees were to be seen amongst it or on it. This is one of the most happy acts the bees can accomplish for their own safety and for your success in operating. The bees will leave from timidity as soon as they feel the jarring caused by the chopping process, act precisely the same as they do under the im pulse of the tapping that is used in driving when transferring them from a gin-case hive to one of the modern bar-frame type, or as was done when robbing the former makeshift lives. The bees will only do so if there be an additional cavity in the tree by means of which they can escape from their two-footed enemy. In the illustration on page 101, our hero does not appear to have met with a tree with the desired additional cavity, or the bees are extra vigilant, judging from the swarming seen around both man and tub. In chopping do not spare the tree. Remove as much of the timber as will give you full access to the combs, so that they may be removed in as large slabs as possible. Large combs are always easier to adjust in bar-frames than smaller pieces. The latter require a lot of manipulating to fit them. If, when you arrive at the nest, the bees are seen still clinging to the combs, try a little moral suasion to dislodge them therefrom. This can be accomplished by placing a box over the nest. See that one side of the box rests near to where the bees are in the most dense cluster so they can ascend to it with freedom. Remove some of the combs gently. If there are no young brood therein, put it in the honey tub. Hold all empty comb up to the light to see if there are eggs therein. They are as valuable as brood, may more so. As you take out each bit of comb examine it carefully to see if the queen is thereon. You are more likely to find her between the combs of brood, or where there are the greatest number of bees clustered. Satisfied that the queen is not on it, brush the bees doff with a bunch of ferns or leaves, and put it in the receptacle for the honey; have another tub or box for the brood-comb. Do not mix the brood and honey together; it will cause the death of a number of bees. Having removed sufficient comb to get at the bees, commence to drive them into the box placed over to receive them. This cannot be accomplished with the gentle tapping given in the case of driving them from a box hive. Heavy thuds with the head of the axe will do it. Sometimes even this fails. In that case, disturb them by brushing them rather roughly with a bunch of ferns; at the same time drive in amongst them two or three clouds of smoke. They will very soon begin to travel into the box put to receive them. All the time you are preparing to drive them, and whilst you are doing so, keep a constant watch for the queen. If she is seen moving into the box let her go, all the bees will soon follow. If she is seen moving away from the box, pick her up by the wing or the thorax--do not touch her abdomen, you may permanently ruin her laying powers--and put her in the box. Do not put her in the box unless there is a handful of bees clustered therein. There will now be no further trouble as regards securing the bees. In a little while you nay remove the box a little further afield. In a few minutes the bees will be seen making towards it like a flock of sheep. Do not be in a hurry to go to work to get out the comb; it will soon be deserted by the bees. Of course there will be a few stragglers on each bit of comb as you remove it; these brush off near the box. As each bit of comb is removed it will be seen that most of what it contains is both brood and honey. Cut away the latter, dropping it into the tub with the honey. When the brood comb is much bsemeared with honey you will find it more difficult to adjust in the frames. So far so good. Now let us see what comes after. You have the box containing the bees; a tub containing the brood; and a tub with the honey. If it be early in the day when you began work there may be a lot of bees still out foraging. In this case it is just as well to leave the box of bees where they are. Of course if it be too far from home you must put up wich the loss of the few hundred bees that are away; otherwise you can leave the bees where they are till sundown. Take home the tub of brood and that of honey. I do not care what you do with the latter. Hero it is none of my business to say anything about it. I want you to look after the bees and brood. At home you have, or ought to have, a bar-frame hive. If you are only going to transfer the bees to a box-hive, remember it is only one remove from where you took them. You know all about that method of doing things. I want you to become a bee master. There is a wide gap between getting honey out of a log, as you have been doing, and obtaining the comb honey from the one-pound sections taken out of a Langstroth super, or extracting it from the frames; and the gap is just as great in the article you obtain. You have the brood comb, but do not know how to fit in the frame! Take a flat table, or some other flat surface; have a number of pieces of tape cut long enough to tie around a full-size frame, the narrow way; place three or four on the flat surface, parallel and equally distant, according to the size of the comb you are about to fix in the frame; place the frame on the tapes; cut the comb to fit a little tightly in the frame, so that the bottom bar shall grip it firmly; it will be all the better to see that the comb is not put in upside down; adjust each frame in the hive. If not combs enough to fill the hive, put in a division board. Fetch your box of bees, and shake them out on the top of the frames; this is better than throwing them in front of the hive, for in this case they sometimes cluster under the hive, and it takes time to dislodge them therefrom. Cover them over with the quilt, and leave them till morning.