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have more money for your honey, after 

 having paid for your advertising. That 

 advertising is profitable is shown by the 

 fact that nearly every successful business 

 house advertises extensively. Bring up 

 the matter of getting more money for 

 your honey at your bee keepers" associa- 

 tions. It is a subject that touches your 

 pocket book, than which there is none 



more interesting. You, Mr. Editor, keep 

 this subject agitated. It is good for your 

 subscribers, and hence good for yoa. 

 Open a honey column in the Review, in 

 which the users and producers of honey 

 may be brought together by means of 

 "want" and "for sale" ads. 



Kenmore, N. Y., June 6th, 1910. 



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The Difference Between Swarm-Control 

 and Swarm-Prevention. 



J. E. HAND. 



V- 



riend Hutch- 

 inson: Your 

 remarks at the 

 close of my arti- 

 cle, which you 

 copied on page 

 375 of Decem- 

 ber Review, 

 would seem to 

 indicate that I 

 have not suc- 

 ceeded in mak- 

 ing myself understood in the description 

 of my system of swarm-control. In 

 order to receive a correct impression 

 concerning a method or system that is 

 being described, it is important that we 

 have a correct knowledge of the terms 

 that are used to designate them. While 

 the terms -swarm-control" and "swarm- 

 prevention" are scarcely distinguishable 

 by the average bee keeper, yet they have 

 a separate and distinct meaning. Even 

 the editors of some of the leading bee 

 journals have fallen into the error of con- 

 sidering the terms synonymous. Swarm- 

 control is different from swarm-preven- 

 tion, in that the former does not prevent 

 swarming; it forestalls the event by 

 substituting the artificial for the natural 

 swarm. Thus, by working in harmony 

 with the instinct of bees, we pay tribute 

 to the demands of Nature; the swarm- 



ing instinct is satisfied, swarming is con- 

 trolled; and our bees are placed in that 

 highly desirable psychological condition, 

 without which it is impossible to secure 

 best results in honey production; a con- 

 dition which cannot be produced by 

 shaking, brushing, or otherwise unduly 

 disturbing them. 



While many have laid claim to swarm- 

 prevention, such claims have invariably 

 been invalidated for want of evidence to 

 sustain them. 1 do not wish to be 

 understood as saying that swarm.ing 

 cannot be prevented; the idea that I 

 wish to convey in this connection is that, 

 in order to accomplish it the colony is 

 thrown so far from a normal condition as 

 to render it practically unproductive dur- 

 ing an ordinary honey flow; therefore, as 

 a rule, it is neither practical nor profitable, 

 to attempt to entirely prevent swarming. 



Perfect control of bees in its broadest 

 sense, can be attained only by applying 

 correct principles in harmony with the 

 God-given instinct of bees. Its useful- 

 ness is by no means limited to swarm- 

 control. Its principles are so intimately 

 connected, as well as closely entwined 

 around every nece'ssary manipulation 

 with bees, as to eliminate all unnecessary 

 labor. 



Your statement that the basic principle 

 underlying my system is identical with 



