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be the ideal package for candied honey, and honey put in these 

 should never be heated before filling, as it never l^ecomes hard and 

 dry like unheated honey. 



I use three gasoline burners under this pan which heats al^out 

 1,500 to 2,500 pounds in six to eight hours. Where convenient a coal 

 or wood stove would be more economical and less dangerous, but 

 perhaps harder to regulate. 



Chambers' Method of Swarm Control. 



By J. E. CHAMBERS, Crystal City, Tex. 



^9*^ HIS method I claim to be in advance of others for the reason 



C^ that it does not aim at the repression or subversion of nature's 



design, but in fact accomplishes that very desire of the bees 



without in the least weakening the colony or dispersing the field 



force. 



During the past few seasons I have used this method with the 

 most gratifying success. I aim to accomplish all my manipulations 

 by mechanical means, and by this means have in the past year devel- 

 oped my method still further. 



The mechanical part consists of a board just the size of the 

 outside dimensions of the hive used. This board is cleated with 

 one-half inch cleats on both sides, top and bottom. A space twelve 

 inches long and ten inches wide is sawed out of the center of the 

 board. This space is covered with wire cloth. A hole is niade at 

 either side of this wire cloth, and a common Porter escape is in- 

 serted and the contrivance is complete. 



Whenever a colony is found getting ready to swarm I remove 

 one comb with adhering bees and brood but no cjueen. ] see that 

 at least two good queen cells are attached to this coml:) and sealed 

 cells are desirable at this stage. I place this comb in a new hive 

 and put in tw^o combs of honey and fill up with either foundation or 

 drawn combs. I place this new hive on the old stand, and if there 

 are any partly filled combs in the old hive I place them on top of this 

 hive and then place the board over all and set the old hive with the 

 bees and brood on top. There is a small hole through the upper 

 back cleat closed with a wood plug at this time. In four days I ^o 

 along behind the hives and pull this plug out. A very few young 

 bees will fly out and an entrance may for a time be established. But 

 every bee that goes below through the escape is added to the colony 

 working above the board. In seven days there will be only young- 

 bees left above the board. \\\ this time room will be needed if there 

 has been any honey flow, and it is a good time to shift the top hives 



