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side with full depth hives, and we do not consider the advantages 

 either way sufificient to warrant a change in hives. There are prin- 

 ciples in the bee-keeping world today that are as far ahead of the 

 sectional hive system as that is ahead of the old box hive of our 

 ancestors. The watchword is to no longer handle hives instead of 

 frames, but handle bees instead of hives and frames. 



SECTIONAIi KTVE BETTER FOR QUEEN REARING. 



AMiile under modern methods of handling bees, instead of hives 

 and frames, one hive is practically as good as another, so far as 

 honey production is concerned, when it comes to commercial queen 

 rearing, the superiority of the sectional hive is manifest in every 

 operation of the art. Owing to its numerous frames, as well as its 

 system of horizontal contraction and expansion by hives, it is 

 especially suited for queen rearing. An 8-frame division with a 

 division board in the center, will accommodate two good strong 

 nuclei, and is the most economical method known. These hives 

 are also equally suited to the economical construction of queen cells. 

 Taken all around, the sectional hive is unmistakably the queen 

 breeder's hive. 



Birmingham, Ohio. 



[The conclusion that I come to after reading the above is, 

 that Mr. Hand, after trying both kinds of hives, does not consider 

 the advantag'e of either over the other of sufficient importance to 

 warrant a change from one to the other being made. I would 

 "guess,"' however, that if he were starting anew, he would adopt 

 the regular Langstroth hive.] 



A Simple System of Swarm Control By Forced 



Swarming. 



GEO W. STEPHENS. 



•■Jl' HAVE been asked to write a description of ni}^ non-swarming, 

 ^ or, rather, swarm control system for The Review, and will 

 now endeavor to do so. First, I will say I quit looking for 

 a non-swarming strain or race of bees several years ago. I believe 

 yet, however, that if I could run fast enough I could find them at 

 the foot of the rainbow. I once knew a man who thought he had 

 non-swarmers, but when, at the end of a short season, he had time 

 to consider the matter seriously, he concluded that while his colonies 

 were strong enough to store a little hone}-, they were not sufficiently 

 populous to catch the swarming fever, and it was not a good year 

 for swarms anyhow. 



