THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



swarm ; do not cut out cells and fuss 

 witli tlieni for they will not woric 

 while liie}' are thinking about 

 swarming. Have your new hive 

 ready and as far as convenient from 

 the old stand. As soon as the 

 swarm issues, open the parent hive 

 and remove all the combs but one 

 to the new stand, bees and all, but 

 be sure that^'ou \vA\e. removed every 

 queen cell. Put in one frame of 

 foundation to (ill the hive ; take the 

 super from the old hive and put it 

 on thejiew one. B3' this time, the 

 swarm will be settled in your hiv- 

 ing-box. Now carry them to the 

 new hive and run them in, as you 

 now have all the Ijees and brood of 

 the old swarm (except the one 

 comb left at the old stand and the 

 bees that are out in the fields) ; 

 the latter will work with all tlie 

 energy of a new swarm. Be sure 

 and put on the super before hiving 

 the swarm and the bees will go into 

 it with a rush and stay there. I 

 never use any honey-board and am 

 not troubled with the queen in the 

 sections. I use the L. frame. If I 

 used small frames and ten or twelve 

 in a hive, I would leave two frames 

 in the old hive instead of one. If 

 they should swarm again in the 

 course of two or three weeks treat 

 them as before ; if they persist in 

 swarming supersede the queen. As 

 to the frame of brood left in the 

 old hive, leave it alone till you 

 have bees enough to fill a hive ; 

 then unite the colony at sundown, 

 remove the empty hives, put on the 

 super and the bees will go to work 

 promptly. With this plan, you 

 will have only one new swarm out 

 from eight or ten old ones, and 

 still have them in the best condi- 

 tion for storing surplus. I think 

 tltey work with greater energy than 

 when they are put back on the old 

 stand. 



Woodcock^ Pa. 



For the American ApicuUurist. 



THE PREVENTION OF 

 INCREASE. 

 (number three.) 



Cha8. Solveson. 



In working for extracted honey, 

 the pievention of increase is easily 

 accomplished b}' a judicious man- 

 agement in tiering up and extract- 

 ing. But when we come to the 

 production of comb honej', no sys- 

 tem of management has as yet suc- 

 ceeded in absolutely preventing 

 increase. There are, however, dif- 

 ferent methods of manipulation 

 that tend to decrease swarming ; 

 but why tr}^ to entirely prevent 

 swarming? Prevent it as far as is 

 consistent with the largest amount 

 of nice comb honey and then make 

 use of the swarms a la Hutchinson 

 and double up in the fiill. 



Of the different methods tending 

 to prevent swarming, I will offer 

 the following as being with me the 

 most successful. 



I use Heddon's sectional hive, 

 but my system of management can 

 be varied to suit the workings of 

 any hive. We will imagine white 

 clover in full bloom and a good 

 colony of bees occupying two sec- 

 tions of the Fleddon hive, with hon- 

 ey-board and one section case on, 

 the latter being about half full of 

 honey ; now lift off the section case 

 and one of the brood-cases, and 

 IVom the case now remaining take 

 four of the frames having the least 

 amount of brood, crowding two to 

 each side of the hive of the four 

 remaining, and in the centre i)lace 

 four frames having a foundation 

 starter half an inch wide, readjust 

 your hive, and in about three days 

 they will be read}^ for another case 

 of sections, and as soon as the four 

 frames below become filled with 

 comb cut it out with the exception 

 of half an inch for a starter, and 



