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STRONGER FORCE IX FORCED SWARMING. 



It also gives the bee-keeper control over the number 

 of bees that shall remain with the swarm. In natural 

 swarming there may be too few bees go with the swarm 

 for best results in storing, while there may still be not 

 enough for any hope of good work in the parent colony, 

 with a possibility of this latter force being still further 



Pig- 56 — Queen-Excluder. 



divided by after-swarms. In the case of a forced swarm, 

 all the bees may be allowel to remain on the old stand 

 except merely enough to care for the brood which is taken 

 away. This brood may then be put on a new stand, and 

 with the addition of a queen or a queen-cell allowed to 

 start out on its career as an independent colony. 



SHAKING OFF ALL BEES. 



Or, the forced swarm may be made still stronger, by 

 giving it all the bees, and distributing the brood to nuclei, 



