HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



Some men have said that the reason that 

 the swarm shaken into the new hive seldom 

 swarms again is because it has had the swarm- 

 ing impulse satisfied by being run into a new 

 hive like a natural swarm, but the real reason 

 is that a colony of bees will seldom desert a hive 

 until it is completely filled with combs in the 

 brood nest, and by the time the swarm will 

 have filled its combs the honey flow is usually 

 over and the cause of swarming a thing of the 

 past. 



There have been advertised from time to 

 time a lot of automatic hivers, but he who 

 invests his money in them but illustrates the 

 old adage that "the fool and his money are 

 soon parted." It is a good thing to go over 

 the apiary and clip the wings of every queen 

 after she has mated and has begun to lay; 

 this will save many a swarm, as a swarm will 

 never run off without its queen. If a swarm 

 should come out with a clipped queen, it may 

 cluster on a near-by tree, while the queen in her 

 inability to fly will be found hopping about 



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