PREVENTION OF SWARMING. 



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SPACE NEAR ENTRANCES. 



Arranging frames with starters or combs merely begun between the 

 brood nest and the flight hole of the hive while the bees are given stor- 

 ing space above or back of the brood-nest (figs. 68 and 69) is a plan 



FIG. 68. The Simmins non-swarming system single-story hive with supers; &c, brood chamber; 

 :, super: st, starters of foundation; e, entrance, (Redrawn from A Modern Bee-Farm.) 



strongly recommended by Mr. Samuel Simmins, of England, and which 

 has come to be known as " the Simmins non-swarming method," some 

 features of it and the combination into a well-defined method having 

 been original with him. It is an 

 excellent preventive measure, 

 though not invariably successful 

 even when the distinctive fea- 

 tures brought forward promi- 

 nently by Mr. Simmins empty 

 space between the brood combs 

 and entrance, together with the 

 employment of drawn combs in 

 the supers are supplemented 

 by other measures already men- 

 tioned; but when, in addition to 

 the space between the brood and 

 the flight hole, the precaution be 

 taken to get supers on in time, 

 to ventilate the hive well, and to 

 keep queens not over two years 

 old, swarming will be very 

 limited. If to these precautions 

 be added that of substituting for 



FIG. 69. The Simniius non-swarming system 

 double-story hive with supers; be, brood chamber; 

 so, supers ; st, chamber with starters ; e, entrance. 

 (Redrawn from A Modern Bee-Farm.) 



the old queens young ones of the current season's raising, before swam 

 ing has begun, practical immunity from swarming is generally insured. 



