HOW TO MAKE INCREASE 



an amateur, but when the increase is rapid, 

 involving a splitting up of a ten-frame colony 

 into five or ten little colonies, great care should 

 be used or failure is sure to follow. 



The late Mr. E. W. Alexander of Delanson, 

 New York (than whom there was no better 

 beekeeper in the world), had a method of 

 doubling his colonies for increase, by which 

 he did away with all possibility of loss of 

 brood, and was still able to secure a good sur- 

 plus at the same time, whereas under most 

 of the methods followed, increase was carried 

 on at the expense of the honey crop, for it is 

 almost an axiom with beekeepers, "The 

 greater the increase, the less honey for that 

 year." 



It can be readily seen that in the splitting 

 up of colonies for increase there would be no 

 surplus gathered, as each of the divisions 

 would require the entire season to draw the 

 frames of foundation out to full combs, and 

 get strong for winter quarters. 



While in rapid increase there is an entire 

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