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FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



the harvest, and although I tried it on a large scale there 

 was no case of success with me. 



FASTENING YOUNG QUEENS IN. 



The good old-fashioned way of managing after- 

 swarms was to return them as fast as they came out. 

 This gave the young queens a chance to fight it out till 

 only one was left, and when only one was left there would 



Fig. 58 — Movable Shade. 



be no more swarming. So I planned to let the young 

 queens fight it out without the trouble of returning 

 swarms. I put a queen-excluder between the bottom- 

 board of the hive, so that no queen could get out. As no 

 queen could get out no swarm could leave. When the 

 young queens emerged they could settle their little differ- 

 ences to suit themselves till only one queen was left. I 

 would keep track -of what was going on inside the hives 

 sufficiently to take away the excluder after all but one 

 queen had been put out of the way, so the young queen 



