June 19, 1902. 



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prevent increase, but are not anxious to prevent swarminjf. 

 As a means of preventing swarniinK-, taking away all lirood 

 works well, but it is not so easy to see on the face of It how 

 it prevents increase. It is not an easy thinfj to start with a 

 piven number of colonies and keep that same number every 

 day of the year for a series of years. Indeed, it is pniliably 

 impossible. iJut it is possible to have the same number each 

 year at some given date. There will be more or less losses 

 in different ways, and these losses must be made f^ood. 

 There are losses in wintering-, losses through (|ueenless- 

 ness, and perhaps losses in number through uniting. When 

 a man does not wish to go above a certain number, he may 

 find it advisable in the spring to unite all his weaker colo- 

 nies ; because it is the strong colonies that give the best 

 harvests. Thus it will be that in any case there will be 

 some increase to make each season, although the number 

 €acii fall may be the same. 



So you will see that you will be able to use up a good 

 deal of brood to make good your number of colanies. But 

 that will not account for the 500 frames of brood you men- 



tion. After you have given a reasonable amount of brood 

 to each of the weak colonies you have to tiuild up, or tocach 

 of the nuclei ymi have started, there will still continue to 

 be brood to be disposed of. Well, after you have given a 

 reasonable amount, keep right on and give an unreasonable 

 amount. Pile up until each pile has 40 frames of tjrood or 

 more. That will allow you to use some of the earliest and 

 strongest for supers, reducing them to one story, or you 

 may allow them to store frames of sealed honey for future 

 use. 



There will thus be an increase in the number of combs, 

 and these can be used the next year to take the place of 

 foundation when you take away all brood. 



3. I don't know. After having tried both on a pretty 

 large scale, I have some doubt whether there is any differ- 

 ence. The two principal points are these : It is easier to 

 manage the larger hives so as to avoid the danger of starv- 

 ing in winter and spring, also the danger of weak colonies; 

 and it is easier and more convenient to handle the smaller 

 hives and their supers. 



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Gage Co., Nebr., June 6. 



Discouraging Outlook. 



I will write a little about the honey 

 crop that some of the good people with 

 supplies to sell told us about. Mr. C. 

 Dayton, who was around among the 

 bee-men, says no one has extracted yet, 

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 is more brood than honey in our hives 

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 in bloom, and so is wild buckwheat, 

 but it yields very little this year. It is 

 possible that along the ocean, where 

 the fog is more dense, they may get a 

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Los Angeles Co., Calif., May 25. 



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 themselves ; then I smoke them again 

 enough to make them scamper all 

 through the hive, and then give them 

 a few puffs of smoke at the entrance. 

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