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occupy the opposite end of the hive (as 

 in the cut). 



Two new frames of brood, 3, 3, the 

 t^o empty combs, 2, 2, on each side, 

 another division-board as before, and. the, 

 same system of management, and there 

 will be two laying queens and one virgin 

 queen present in the one brood-cham- 

 ber. The certainty of this plan depends 

 more or less upon the disposition of the 

 bees, and the number of empty combs in 

 the spaces, shown at 2, 2. While one 

 comb in each space is generally enough, 

 three is sure with any colony. 



I accidentally discovered this plan in 

 the Summer of 1885. At the time I 

 was experimenting to produce extracted- 

 honey in single story hives, and avoid 

 the usual mixture of brood through so 

 many combs of honey, by confining the 

 queen upon four combs through the 



ning of the honey harvest, run the 

 whole force for the production of honey. 

 Clinton, Wis. 



How to Preyent Swarains. 



W. p. ODENDAHL. 



In the Spring of 1889 I purchased two 

 colonies of Italian bees, and a little later 

 I bought 2 prime swarms. I allowed 

 each of the 2 colonies to cast 2 swarms, 

 and thus I had 8 colonies. 



They did exceedingly well — so well, in 

 fact, that by the middle of August the 

 two prime swarms (new colonies) were 

 so over-populous that I was afraid they 

 might swarm, and this I made up my 



Dayton's Queeii-Restrictor. 



iise of perforated zinc division-boards, 

 when the original brood-combs that 

 were separated from the queen and re- 

 mained in a distant part of the hive, had 

 some queen-cells built upon them. Wire- 

 cloth division-boards were put in, and 



five out of eight 

 became fertilized. 

 In the Spring of 

 was described in 

 JouKNAL, on page 



or ten young queens 



1886 the restrictor 

 the American Bee 

 393. 



As this exhausts the number of queens 

 which it is practicable to have in a hive 

 at once, I find it best to start out in the 

 first place with a hive large enough to 

 hold 25 to 30 combs to provide ample 

 space on the outside of the restrictors, 

 and in the apartments occupied by the 

 frames, 2, 2, to be widened and filled up 

 with extractor combs, or wide frames of 

 sections, and, being at about the begin- 



mind to prevent, if possible. I was also 

 anxious to try transferring. 



Accordingly, I purchased of a neighbor 

 who kept bees in box-hives, two of the 

 latest and smallest swarms he had, and 

 took them home. I got two new hives 

 ready, and placed them where I wished 

 the transferred colonies to stand. This 

 done, I proceeded to the over crowded 

 colonies, removed the cover and super 

 and carefully drew out the two center 

 frames, using a little smoke to keep the 

 bees quiet, and brushed all the bees from 

 these two frames, replacing them with 

 frames containing starters. 



I now took the two frames of brood 

 and placed them in the center of the new 

 hive, placing the box-hive on top of the 

 simplicity hive. I removed one side of the 

 box-hive, blowing in a little smoke, and 

 cut out the first comb. In this way I cut 



