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CHICAGO, ILL., JUNE 27, 1895. 



No. 26. 



Cot;)tnbuted /Vrticlcs^ 



On Imjictrtant A-piarian Subjects* 



Swarmiag Management for Comb-Honey Folks. 



BY ADRIAN GETAZ. 



This is for comb-honey producers. For those engaged in 

 the extracted-houey business, I have nothing to say, except 



Hans Schnitzel and the Giant Bees. 



No. 1 — " Py chimminy kracious, doze pig Chiant pees vill all 

 mine podadoes sad oop alretty maype ! I fix dem ! " 



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No. 'i — " Shoo, dere 1 you pig shtingers I 

 so help me kracious 1 " 



I kills you all dead, 



that the book, " Langstroth Revised," gives the best informa- 

 tion I know on the subject. 



The majority of our leading writers and practical bee- 

 keepers allow their bees to swarm once : they hive the swarm 

 on the old stand, and arrange to have as many of the bees as 

 possible with the swarm, and depend upon the swarm for 

 gathering the surplus they may get. If there is only a few 



weeks of honey-flow ahead, they contract the brood-nest as 

 much as possitsie, so as to get honey instead of brood. Most 

 of them agree, nevertheless, that colonies that do not swarm 

 at all, give better results ; and if they do allow swarming, it is 

 because they cannot prevent it without disturbing the colony, 

 causing the bees to get the swarming-fever, sulking and hang- 

 ing outside of the hive, etc., instead of gathering nectar. 



Where the honey-flow is long enough, both the colony and 

 the swarm may have time enough to build up and gather 

 more than the non-swarming colony. This is not the case 

 with me. In this locality the non-swarming colony is de- 

 cidedly ahead. 



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No. 3 — ''Ach, Himmel ! I sbpills mine kartoffel all de vioor 

 ofer, und doze plamed olt pees now vants to shting me, doo, py 

 cholly!" 



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No. 4 — Ooh ! I not can shmell goot some more ! Anyhow. I 

 knocks dere heads righd avay guick olf — doze confoundt Chiant 

 pees! I vants no more fighd mit dem, py Sockery ! "' 



We come now to the crevention of swarming. There is, 

 so far, only one way to do it, that is, removing the queens. 

 Messrs. Elwood, Hetherington and Aikin have practiced it for 

 years, and with hundreds and even thousands of colonies, and 

 obtained splendid results. The process as given by Mr. Elwood 

 is as follows : 



At the beginning of the honey-flow, or rather at the time 



