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THE AMEEICAJSr APICULTURIST. 



llie trap in a box, or in some place 

 lluiL will protect the bees from the 

 Sim and I'ain. Several hundred bees 

 will remain with the queens, and it 

 will amuse the beekeeper very much 

 to see the bees perform that stick 

 to the queen. Each day, find sev- 

 eral times some days, the bees in the 

 tra[) will swarm, go into the air and 

 as the queen cannot leave, the bees 

 soon return again. In this condi- 

 tion the queen and bees will live for 

 a long time, or as long as they can 

 gather food from the fields ; thus you 

 will see that there is no better or 

 more convenient wa}^ to control 

 swarming and also for preserving 

 a queen than by the methods here 

 given. If your apiary is away from 

 home, or if one has business and 

 cannot visit the apiary but once or 

 twice each week, the trap will pre- 

 vent any colonies from absconding 

 to the woods, antl to know that a 

 colony has cast a swarm during the 

 absence of the beemaster, all that 

 is necessary is to examine the trap 

 and the queen may be seen on the 

 wire-cloth by disturbing those in 

 the trap a little. If a queen is 

 found, remove the trap to some safe 

 place, open the hive and destroy 

 the cells, and in the course of a 

 few days (say six da3s) destroy 

 any new cells, let the queen run in 

 at the entrance and use smoke 

 freely for a few moments. 



I can give another method for 

 controlling swarming by tiie use of 

 the trap, but it is not as practical 

 as the one given, as a colony would 

 have to remain queenless nearly 

 fourteen days. 



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