ne ounce of strychnia in
hot water. Soak corn in this until it swells and then dry completely."

BEE-KEEPER'S COLUMN.

Conducted by FRANCIS JAGER, Professor of Apiculture, University
Farm, St. Paul.

COMB HONEY, EXTRACTED HONEY, AND INCREASE.

(Continued from May No.)

Colonies run for comb honey are very much inclined to swarm. Swarming
with the resulting division of forces is incompatible with profitable
comb honey production. The colony must be kept together for best
results. The following methods are used by well known beekeepers.

1. At the beginning of the honey flow let the colony cast a natural
swarm. After hiving the bees on starters or full sheets of foundation
and giving them a little brood to prevent them from swarming out again,
the swarm is put in the place of the parent colony, which is removed to
one side two or three feet. The seventh day the old colony is moved over
to the opposite side of the swarm two or three feet. Two weeks after,
all the bees are shaken in front of the swarm, and the hive with wax and
honey removed. Thus the desire of bees for swarming has been satisfied,
and the colony is still working together.

2. Make a shaken swarm. During the dandelion honey flow add an
extracting super to your comb raising colony to give bees room to store.
At the beginning of the honey flow set the whole hive a little aside and
put a new bottom board on the place thus vacated. On this bottom board
place the extracting super from your colony. Find the frame with the
queen and put it in the middle of this new brood chamber, bees and all.
Then shake all the bees from the old brood chamber into the new. The
brood in the old hive thus left orphans may be piled up on top of some
weaker colony in your yard who will take care of it. Five such supers
with brood may be piled on top of one such colony, and they will be the
strongest in the yard for storing extracted honey during the basswood or
other late honey flow. This honey will be very handy for feeding your
bees in the fall and spring. Now add a comb honey super to your shaken
swarm. Add more supers when necessary, below before July 4th, on top
after that date. Remove all comb honey supers at once at the end of the
honey flow to have them white and clean.

3. When your colony is very strong at the beginning of the honey
flow--about June 10th--remove the queen, either by killing her or by
starting a new colony with her with two frames of brood.