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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



When extracting frames with young 

 unsealed brood in, the extracting room is 

 no place for company. By the cutting 

 out capped brood plan of managing 

 swarming yoj put a queen excluder over 

 the brood nest and confine the queen 

 below where she belongs. 



When your extracting colony is full to 

 overflowing with bees, open the hive and 

 with your knife cut the heads off all the 

 capped brood except the two frames left 

 to make good the loss of fielders. As a 

 matter of fact, give them the same 

 treatment as the comb honey colony. 

 Give second treatment if any colonies 

 require it. If on your next visit you find 

 the bees going in and out with a rush, 

 pay no attention to it except to give 

 plenty of room in the supers. Examine 

 any that are found clustered out and 

 taking life easy. You will find them pre- 

 paring to swarm. Repeat the treatment 

 and dismiss all thought of their swarming 

 from your mind. No one would tolerate 

 a brood nest in a second story if it were 

 not that it retards swarming. Certainly 

 a great improvement over present 

 methods when the queen can be kept 

 below and the supers free from brood 

 and pollen, and the matter of increase 

 under perfect control. 



5th. It does away with all non- 

 swarming hives and devices, all self- 

 hivers, and all swarm controllers that 

 cost money. Besides, these are usually 

 unsatisfactory and unreliable. The 

 treatment here outlined does not cost a 

 single penny's investment to carry it out; 

 no extra capital invested to add to the 

 cost of production. Every bee-keeper 

 has or should have a smoker and an un- 

 capping knife as a part of his equipment. 



6th. There is no hunting of queens with 

 all its vexations. Neither is there any 

 caging or clipping of queens or need for 

 any extra attention directed toward her. 

 There is no pinching of queen cells, as the 

 bees will attend to that better than it 

 can be done by the hand of man. No 

 stacking of brood on other colonies, no 

 bumping of hives around, nor shaking of 

 bees into another hive and compelling 

 them to build a new brood nest during 

 the honey low. No interruption of the 

 queen's laying right along in the old 

 brood nest. All ot these take up valuable 

 time right in the busy season when the 

 rush is on, and even then, after all such 

 fussing, there is no assurance that the 

 bee-keeper has accomplished that which 

 he set out to do. His expectations may 

 be realized and then again they may not. 



7th. The ease and simplicity of the 

 treatment makes it a boon to the amateur 



bee-keeper. The man with a few bees 

 on a village lot can give treatment and go 

 on about his business knowing that he 

 has his bees under control. The farmer 

 with a few stands of bees to furnish 

 honey for his own use, can give them the 

 treatment at his leisure, feeling confident 

 that he will not be called from his work 

 by that old familiar cry, "The bees are 

 swarming." The professional with his 

 out-yards can raise either comb or ex- 

 tracted honey, feeling sure that there will 

 be no absconding of swarms during his 

 absence. And whether he be amateur 

 or specialist, he can care for double the 

 number of colonies and can double the 

 amount of his honey crop with the same 

 amount of labor. The cost of production 

 will be so cheapened that honey will not 

 be considered a luxury. When this plan 

 of treatment becomes generally known, 

 the honey production of the world will 

 be doubled. 



While the above extract gives the main 

 feature of the plan, don't think that the 

 rest of the book is not worth reading; as 

 it tells how the method was discovered, 

 what are its disadvantages as well as 

 advantages, the experience of the author 

 in its use, how to make the most of the 

 plan, etc. 



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