26 Farmers’ Bulletin 1198. 
previously they were so eagerly deserting. The field force has not 
been: reduced, the returning field bees from the parent colony all enter- 
ing the new hive, since it is located where the old one stood. Fre- 
quently such colonies store even more honey than colonies that do 
not attempt to swarm. As soon as the swarm is established in the 
new hive the entrance of the parent colony should be turned back 
toward its former position (fig. 6), and a day or two later it should 
again be turned, so that the two hives now stand side by side, having 
their entrances close together (fig. 7). - 
If extracted honey is being produced the parent colony and the 
swarm can be reunited a day or two later by first destroying all the 
queencells in the par- 
ent colony, then plac- 
ing the hive body 
containing it (with- 
out bottom or cover) 
on top of the supers 
on the new swarm in 
the same manner as 
an additional super. 
In this way the par- 
ent colony and the 
swarm are in the 
oN tea same hive forming a 
yn single colony, the 
queen and the new 
ie é are 
<A Liga brood-chamber be 
wi Ws Ely ing below the supers 
Wl <o Ke EE RW 
Wren ner WES 
and separated from 
Fic. 5.—Cage arranged to catch issuing swarm. Especially them by a queen ex- 
emp when several Swarms issue at about the same cluder while the 
ime, 2 
parent colony is 
above the supers. Nine or ten days after the swarm has issued any 
queencells that the bees may have built in the parent coleny during 
this interval should be destroyed. Under certain conditions, not yet 
fully explained, this has not been found necessary if the parent 
colony is separated from the swarm by at least two full-depth ex- 
tracting supers, but with less than this distance between, such colonies 
may swarm when the young queens in the parent colony begin to 
emerge. 
If increase is desired, this brood-chamber may be taken away a 
week after the swarm has issued, to form a new colony. In this case 
the queencells should not be destroyed. If too many bees cling to 
the old brood-chamber the bees from all but three or four of the 
combs may be shaken into the supers in order to strengthen the swarm 
