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will all live, as Maple, Willow, etc., are now coming in bloom. 



April 1st: Bees all O. K. ; have lost no more. 



The frame of feed sent you is for spring feeding and contains 

 one pound of pea-meal to ten pounds of candy. There is something 

 funny about this feeding of meal. I fed this meal in open dishes in 

 the apiary and the bees took it in fine shape, but, do you know, as 

 soon as I fed the candy containing th.e pea-meal, not a single bee 

 would work upon the meal in the open. 



Under date of April 11th, ]\Ir. Fuller says: I have found out 

 by trials that 16 ounces of Xabob export sugar will produce the 

 same results as 24 ounces of liquid glucose, when mixed with 12 

 pounds of granulated sugar. 



Prevention of Swarming. 



By ADRIAN GETAZ, Knoxville. Tenn. 



' • Jl F Air. Joseph S. Scott wants to suppress swarming in his apiar- 

 ^ ies. he will have to change his system of bee-keeping entirely. 

 Swarming can be prevented or nearly so by giving the queen 

 ample space. I mean by that, build combs in the brood nest, and 

 enough empty combs in the supers, to enable the bees to store the 

 surplus honey without encroaching on the breeding combs. The 

 brood nest should be t'WcJve standard frames, or the equivalent. For 

 full information on the subject see Langstroth Revised. 



These conditions can be realized Avhen working for extracted 

 honey, but not with comb-honey production. A\'e can give the nec- 

 essary combs in the brood nest, but only foundation in the supers. 

 The result is that the bees will fill up a large portion of the brood 

 nest with honey and thus restrict the space allowed to the queen. 

 We have then to add another means of prevention — that is, requeen- 

 ing every year, either late in the fall or very early in the spring. 

 The latter is preferable if the locality is such that it can be done 

 before or at swarming time. It is a well-known fact that bees with 

 a queen less than one year old will rarely swarm, and then only un- 

 der very adverse circumstances. What is not generally known is 

 that a young queen will keep or induce the bees to keep the brood 

 nest clear of honey, or more nearly so than an older one. 



The conditions then are first: A brood nest of sufficient size: 

 second, sufficient space in the supers, preferably with full sheets of 

 foundation; third, yearly requeening; and fourth, sufficient shade and 

 ventilation, and we might add sufficient protection against cool nights 

 if needed. With all that strictly attended to. not more than two 

 colonies out of a hundred will swarm. 



The Dadant hive is not convenient for the production of comb 

 honev. For this the choice is between a 12 standard frames hive and 



