Year: 1875

diately produces a sort of paralysis of the
system, which for time renders them
| quite harmless. Mr.. Z. uses tin tube,
one end being turned for two inches and
| flaJtened, leaving passage through. tie
/ inserts the flat end of the tube into the en-
| trance, and gives them three or four good
puffs of tobacco smoke. The bees remain
| for several minutes under control.


REMOVING BEES.


The most favorable time to remove bees
| is In the autumn, or the early spring. Mr..
| p. recommends pieces of packing wrapper
three feet square, spread on the ground
near the hive; there administer few pulls
of tobacco smoke, and take the hive with
out the floor board. and place it on the
cloth. Pull the corners close up the side
of the hive, and bind them with strOag
strings. Then turn the hive crown down.
ward, which saves the combs from being
displaced. He packed sixteen hives IN
this way last autumn, loaded them in
spring van, and drove them a distanG of
| ten miles without damage. When he
reached the ground he placed the hives,
canvas and all, on the block, unfastened
the string, allowed the canvas ID remain q
| few days, AID then drewit away. Young
swarms should be removed tie same day
on which they swarmed, or left for re-
moyal till the autumn. Should the hive
be taken when only psrtly filled with
comb, the excitement will be so great that
the combs will give way, and all fall in one
confused mass.


TO WEIGH HIVES.


Have a tripod, the three legs of which
may be six feet in length, with bolt pass
! ing through the whole. A hook must also
/ be fixed on the bolt at the top, on which
! to hang the ring of a Salter's spring bal
ance. A scale of half-inch board, thirty
| inches square, with cord through each cor
ner, and confined by ring at the top, will
complete very convenient weighing ma
chine.


1t is necessary to a large apiary to num-
ber or name all hives, and to enter them in
a book, keeping a record of such facts as
YOU may find necessary. Two or three
| swarms united in the autumn in one hive
will consume no more honey through the
winter than the smallest one left to itself.
] BEES ENEMIES.


/ Never put a new swarm of bees in an old
/ hive, as there will almost certainly be the
eggs of the honey moth deposited in the
! crcvices of the hive. which viii hatch out
and probably destroy the swarm. When
! the moth once gains an entrance to the
! hive the bees appear pOwerless to eXpel
them. When the maggOts begin to eat
! their wav into the combs the sooner the
bees are fumigated the better.


! Do not have a large round entrance to
| the hive. convenient to mice, slugs, and
other enemies; have an entrance of only
about quarter of an inch in height, and
from an inch in winter to four inches in
length in summer. Should wasps or other
bees attack hive, the only plan is to mar
row the entrance so that only one or two
bees can pass at a time.


To destroy wasps, saturate piece OF
wooden rag with spirits of turpentine, put
it into the entrance to the nest, and leave
it there one night. The next morning
every wasp will be dead.


JOINING swARMs.


Should you wish to join two swarms
Law down two short sticks nine inches
apart; take one of the hives and knock i
on the ground two or three times until The
bees are all shaken out of the hive: theT
sprinkle them quickly with their sirup
place the hive with the other swarmS OF
the stick over these shaken on the grounG
for the night, and they will be found peace
ably united with one dead queen in tn
morning.


PROFITS OF BEE-KEEPING.


Mr.. Pettigrew, labOrer, made $3.50 il
one year by bees; and a ScOtchman il
Lancashire made 5000 from nine or ter
stock hives. An average of twenty-five
pounds from each stock hive is regarded a
a fair return for time and trouble.


We close this brief epitOme with the fol
lowing remarks by the writer:


Bees have neither pride nor vanity IL
the exterior decorations OF their dwellings
and when more room is required for thei
operations they will as readily store honey
in a straw-hive, an old box, a tub, bucket
or fipwer-pOt. as in the most costly, high
Unfinished, and ornamental pavilion tina
can be placed at their disposal. But /
must be remembered that all entrances
from the stock hive into any of these su
per appliances must be guarded by the
three-sixteenths ofan inch passage.


commenced my present plan of bee
keeping with only one hive purposely Il
prove the self-suppOrting nature of pro
, perly-managed apiary, and also to con
vince the cOttager how, by starting in tn
same manner, he may soon. as beC-kcep
er. attain the same position have mysel
arrived at. He will then have the salts
fiction of knowing that his bees will sup
ply him with double the income he coul'
gain by expending all his strength ant
labor in the fields; in fact, he may thel
Law down his shovel and his hoe"


IwOuld say to the cOttager the same a
ga French bishop" wishing to better tn
condition Of his poor clergy, once said t.
them: 8 KEEP BEES KEEP BEES ~


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