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bees to his utmost capacity, as well as to 

 his financial prosperity. 



In conclusion: Keep more bees, and 

 produce both comb and extracted honey, 

 for one can be produced just as cheaply 

 as the other, when you have the key to 

 the perfect control of bees with economy 

 of labor. 



Birmingham, Ohio, April 16, 1910. 



[No one knows better than myself, 

 Bro. Hand, how difficult it is to so write 

 as to make it impossible to be misunder- 

 stood. For instance, in saying that man, 

 in seeking a livelihood, usually sought 



the line of least resistance, I did not in- 

 tend to say that some of us have not 

 ideals and ambitions, for the fulfilment of 

 which we are ready to labor and 

 endure. 1 am well aware that with 

 swarming controlled, profitably, great 

 things may be accomplished in the pro- 

 duction of comib honey. I would not be 

 so fool hardy as to say that comb honey 

 will never be produced as cheaply as 

 extracted, but it won't be with our 

 present methods. I have great respect 

 and admiration for men who are not 

 chained to orthodox methods.— Editor.] 



Making 100 per cent. 

 Full Crop of 



LEONARD 



I have been in the bee business 

 eleven years, and, during the 

 past four years, have managed 

 from three to four apiaries, consisting of 

 from 170 to 280 colonies; doing nearly 

 all the work alone. One apiary is run 

 for comb honey, and the others for 

 extracted. I have tried quite a number 

 of different methods of swarm control 

 in the production of comb honey. I have 

 tried caging the queen for ten days, re- 

 moving all queen cells at time of caging, 

 also removing queen cells eight days 

 later. By this method, swarming and 

 increase are prevented. 



Very few of my colonies are ever 

 allowed to get far enough advanced for 

 natural swarming; so you will see that I 

 do not approve of that method. 



1 tried the Doolittle method, which is to 

 place a full set of drawn combs on a 

 colony, over a queen excluder, as soon 

 as the colony is populous enough to need 

 them. But I find the trouble with this 

 method is that the bees sometimes get 

 too much honey in the combs before I 

 can give them the needed attention, 

 which consists in shaking them, from the 

 brood onto these combs in the upper 



Increase, yet Getting a 

 Comb Honey. 



S. GRIGGS. 



chamber, and giving them a super of 

 sections at the time of this operation. 



"double-shook- SWARMING." 



I will now describe the method which 

 I find the most satisfactory of any, giving 

 100 per cent, increase, and as good a 

 crop of comb honey as a non-swarming 

 colony. 



With this plan I prefer to clip all queens 

 while fruit trees are in blossom, and, as 

 soon as colonies are strong enough to 

 require sections, give them their first 

 super, containing a few sections of partly 

 drawn combs, which are placed next to 

 the outside row of sections in the super. 



The next thing is to see that all hives 

 are in readiness for making increase 

 when needed; and, as soon as the bees 

 begin preparations for swarming, which, 

 with me, is usually a few days after 

 white clover begins to blossom, 1 examine 

 all the colonies, and any colony having 

 queen cells with larvae in, is shaken into 

 another hive which is placed upon the 

 old stand. This new hive has all its 

 frames filled with full sheets of medium 

 brood foundation, excepting one frame of 

 full drawn comb, which must have had 

 brood reared in it, at least one season. 



