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on all kinds of swarms. If you find 

 them on a tree, g'ive them a sprinkling- 

 with water the first thing- — you can 

 hold them in this way as long as you 

 wish; and when shook from the limb 

 in front of a hive, if you sprinkle them 

 instantly they will not fly up as they 

 otherwise often do. Put all the combs 

 and brood back into the old hive (No. 

 1), partly close the entrance, leaving 

 the north half open (next to the hive 

 containing the shook-swarm.) About 

 a week later change ends with hive 

 No. 1, and raise back end of the hive 

 containing- shook-swarm X or ^ of an 

 inch from the bottom board, resting it 

 on two little blocks. This makes an 

 entrance into which the bees that 

 leave the old hive (No. 1) will go and 

 thus reinforce the colony from which 

 you expect a surplus, and nearly iil- 

 ways stops after-swarming. 



No. 1 will need no further care; and, 

 mark m3'^ word for it, will be in boom- 

 ing shape for the next season unless it 

 should fail to secure a fertile queen. 



HOW TO MANAGE IF NO INCREASE IS 

 DESIRED. 



If you have not wanted increase, 

 and have hived on starters, go, after 

 the honey flow, and put a queen-ex- 

 cluder over hive No. 1, set the new 



hive over it, cut out all the nice, white 

 honey to sell for chunk honey, and 

 drive the few bees down with the 

 others or let them go at will, and carry 

 down all the broken or dark honey. 

 Extract from the one old comb, or 

 keep it for feeding. 



If supers with plenty of partly filled 

 boxes and boxes with foundation are 

 given to a shook-swarm the bees are 

 so interested in filling them that they 

 often only partly fill the brood-nest 

 with comb. 



I have followed this plan for twelve 

 years, and I don't think I have ever 

 had a colony abscond. Shook-swarm- 

 ing has enabled me to keep bees in 

 three Counties at once, with the loss of 

 only a few swarms. One apiary in 

 Livingston County, sixteen miles 

 southwest, another in Yates County, 

 twenty-three miles southeast, and my 

 home apiary; but it was too much for 

 one man to do as I had to do most of 

 the driving in the night. I have slept 

 in my buggy for hundreds of miles, so 

 faithful and trusty is my "bee pony" 

 as I call her. I now keep only about 

 175 colonies, but I feel just like shouting 

 "keep more bees" and run out-apia- 

 ries on the shook-swarm plan. 



East Bloomfield, N. Y., May 6, '04. 



g ILoiipge Yields ©ff E^tracti 



BY E. W. ALEXANDER. 



FIRST of all, look well to the qual- 

 ity of your honey, for upon this 

 one point, more, perhaps, than upon 

 any other, depends your success. 

 And right here let me thank all the 

 editors of our bee journals for the 

 advice they have always given, to put 

 only well-ripened honey on the mar- 

 ket. If you barrel up a lot of thin, 



unripe honey, you do yourself much 

 harm, as no one will' knowingly buy 

 your honey the second time; and what 

 is still worse, you injure the sale of 

 extracted to those that have seen your 

 miserable stuff. This is something I 

 have been very careful about. During 

 my experience in producing extracted 

 honey, I have never put into a barrel 



