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If swarming occurs when honey is 

 coming in, the hive should be at once 

 removed to a new place and a new hive 

 placed in the old location, the bee 

 specialists of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture advise. The swarm is now 

 hived in this new hive and, because it 

 is in the old location, all returning field 

 bees from the colony join the swarm 

 and the population is kept up. Later 

 on there are various ways of reducing 

 the parent colony still more, for by this 

 means the issuing of worthless after- 

 swarms is prevented. 



The beekeeper who desires to get the 

 greatest possible crop does not permit 

 even one swarm to issue if he can help 

 it. When swarming time arrives, he 

 examines every colony once a week. If 

 he finds queen cells with eggs or small 

 larvae in them, he cuts every one out 

 and thus makes it necessary for the 

 bees to build other cells, if they still 

 persist in their efforts to swarm. If, 

 however, he finds larger cells with old 

 larvae he knows that the impulse to 

 swarm has developed too far, so he 

 must satisfy it in some way. He may 

 make an artificial swarm — at his con- 

 venience and not at that of the bees— 

 or if he is a producer of comb-honey 

 he may cut out all the queen cells and 

 cage the queen for ten days until they 

 get over their "swarming fever." 



The skill of the beekeeper can usu- 

 ally be measured by the results of his 

 work in curbing swarming. The poetry 

 which others see in issuing swarms is 

 entirely lost on a good beekeeper. The 

 methods of swarm control are given in 

 Farmers' Bulletin 503, "Comb Honey," 

 which may be obtained on request 

 from the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



High Cost of Food Necessitates 

 Judicious Management. 



Purchasing food supplies and plan- 

 ning and preparing three meals a day 

 has always been a problem, but with 

 the increase in food prices the problem 

 is becoming more difficult every day. 

 The abnormal price of certain foods 

 leads the careful housewife to seek sub- 

 stitutes, but if she does not know the 



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