Show transferring ailees iho best time to transfer bees from box lives hives to movable frame hives says tho the american beo bea journal is just before the fruit blooms when there is lit flo honey borley in them tho the drumming method as r advised ak ased by mr MIT james aed jon is aa follows after getting the new hives ready aric and eve every ry framo frame nicely fitted up with foundation proceed to the box bos hive and give give the bees a little next nest turn tile bo bos t hive upside down and place nn an empty box on the top of it largo large enough to hold a good sized swarm of bees with a clack or a hammer drum on the hive for fifteen or twenty ini minutes when vaen the greater arlater portion of the tha bees including the cusen will be in the upper box bos takeoff take off the upper box and dump the beelat bees at the entrance ranco of the new hive and they will all lush in alie old hive should be removed a short distance away and the new hive placed where the old one stood in a bev few days day the comb foundation in the Is new live hive will ill all be dra drawn m out and a good ool sized colony of bees will be start 1 nd d len leave 0 th the 0 box bos hive where it is lor for twenty one days generally enough chough 0 bees remain remain at home after the others are arc taken out to take care of tho the brood after twenty one days every bee ii hatched including all the queen cells cc alls end and as no laying queen is in the hive 1 i is entirely destitute of brood to remove the remaining bees proceed as before and then split up the box hive hire and melt or save the combs whichever you choose |