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Mention should be made of a hive of quite different construction, a 
prominent feature of which is this ease of contraction and expansion. 
It is the last hive which the late M. Quinby gave to the public—the 
Quinby closed-end frame hive (fig. 6). This hive is used with great 
success by certain American bee keepers of long experience and whose 
apiaries are among the largest in the world. 
MANAGEMENT IN SWARMING. 
When a swarm is seen issuing or in the air, the best thing to do is, 
in general, simply to wait a bit. The weather is usually rather warm 
then, and rushing about to get tin pans, dinner gongs, spraying outfits, 
ete., aside from its disagreeableness, may get one so excited and into 
such a perspiration as to unfit him to do with the bees that which is 
likely to be necessary a few minutes later. They will probably gather 
in a clump on a tree or bush near the apiary, and however formidable 
getting them into the hive may at first seem, nothing will be simpler 
than shaking them into their new hive, or into a basket or box, from 
which they may be poured in front of the hive, just as one would pour 
out a measure of wheat or beans. If any stick to the basket or box, 
invert it and give a sharp thump with one edge against the ground. If 
the hive has been standing in the shade so that the boards composing 
it are not heated, if it be now well shaded and plenty of ventilation be 
given above and below, the bees are almost certain to take posses- 
sion at once and begin work actively. 
The securing of swarms can be made, however, even simpler than this 
by having the colonies placed several feet apart on a smooth lawn or 
dooryard and clipping one wing of each laying queen so as to prevent 
her flying. The prime or first swarm from each hive is accompanied 
by the old queen, and if she be clipped she will of course fall from the 
alighting board to the ground and may be secured in acage. The bees 
will circle about a few times and return. Meanwhile the only thing for 
the attendant to do is to replace the parent colony by an empty hive. 
The returning bees will enter the latter and the queen may be allowed 
to goin with them, the cage being placed with its open end directly 
against the entrance to insure this. The swarm is thus made to hive 
itself. The parent colony removed to a new stand a rod or more away 
will rarely give a second swarm. But to make certain all queen cells 
except one may be cut outany time within a few days after the issuance 
of the first swarm. Each afterswarm (second, third, etc.), it should be 
borne in mind, is accompanied by one or more unimpregnated queens, 
and these must not be clipped until they have flown out and mated. 
The regular deposition of eggs in worker cells may nearly always be 
regarded as a safe sign that mating has taken place. Eggs will usually 
be found in such cells within the first ten days of the queen’s life. 
Afterswarms may remain in the air, circling about for some time, and 
they frequently cluster high—a good reason, in addition to the more 
