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Artificial Swarms. 



The editor of the Rocky Mountain Bee 

 .Journal says: 



The method we use and prefer is to place a 

 new hive filled with foundation starters on 

 the old stand ; shake off about seven-eighths 

 of the bees, including the queen ; put on a 

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Swarming, and Section lloney. 



■■ Hello, Doolittle! Awful hot to-day. My 

 liives are covered with bees hanging out. and 

 1 fear they are going to have a swarming-time 

 iust when basswood is at its best, as it will bo 

 in ten days now. What method do you use 

 in order to keep the bees from swarming just 

 when it is important to keep the hives 

 crowded with bees in order to secure a good 

 yield of section honey ?" 



■'You are not the first one to ask such a 

 question, Mr. Brown, for this is something 

 bee-keepers have been asking during the past 

 quarter of a century. If the apiarist has done 

 what he could to get his hives full of brood 

 at the proper time, he will have lots of bees 

 in time for the honey harvest — hives over- 

 flowing with bees, as you say j-ours are now., 

 and in order to be successful with them, all 

 swarming should be done before the height 

 of the season arrives." 



" But I supposed you did not allow your 

 bees to swarm, for. I am told, no large 

 amount of section honey can be obtained if 

 we let our bees swarm." 



" In this you err, for the swarm and parent 

 colony, if rightly managed, will do fully as 

 much with the average bee-keeper, when just 

 one swarm is allowed to issue, as could be 

 gotten were they not allowed to swarm : and. 

 besides, if we tried to keep them together by 

 cutting out queen-cells, giving extra section- 

 room, etc., we would, as a rule, only delay 

 swarming, so it would come during the last 

 half of the honey harvest, when it would be 

 the most detrimental to our interests." 



" But is there no such thing as non-swarm- 

 ing hives, used when working for section- 

 honey ?" 



■• Whenever I hear men talking about non- 

 swarming hives in connection with producing' 

 see lion-honey, I feel quite a little like doubt- 

 ing their practical experience as apiarists." 



^' Well, what is your method, if you do not 

 use non-swarming hives, and let your bees 

 swarm at will '." 



■' All my early swarms ace hived singly in a. 

 hive having but five frames in them, contain- 

 ing a starter of comb foundation about half 

 an inch deep, and the sections are put on at 

 time of hiving, as five frames give hardly 

 room enough for a large prime swarm." 



■■What do you mean by those coming- 

 early ?" 



•• Such as come out from 10 to 15 days be- 

 fore the main honey harvest, which, in this- 

 locality [Onundaga Co., N. Y.,] is generally 

 from tiasswood." 



■■And do all of your colonies obey and 

 swarm during those five or six days ?" 



"No; I do not have all swarms come out 

 just as I might wish, but I have a different 

 plan of management for those that come 

 later, say from five to eight days before the 

 harvest. These later ones are united, so that 

 two are put in a hive filled with combs, the 



