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The honey Is capped whiter. As 

 you well know, you get whiter-capped 

 sections over newly built combs, and 

 the honey will bring a far better price. 

 I brush on eight frames, leaving the 

 swarm on the old stand, leveling the 

 hive so as to have true combs; and 

 after the queen begins to lay I re- 

 move three frames, filling the space 

 with dummies. I also remove the ex- 

 cluder at the same time, as the bees 

 seem to work some better; and I rare- 

 ly find brood in sections after the 

 queen begins to lay in the brood-nest. 

 I had only one do so this year in 150 

 colonies. After they get the five 

 frames filleil with comb, remove dum- 

 mies and fill the space with combs, or 

 frames filled with full sheets of foun- 

 dation. If you have young, vigorous 

 queens you won't have much drone 

 comb. 



"I give my queens all the combs 

 they can occupy, from early in spring 

 until the honey-flow, which comes 

 here about the last week in June. We 

 have a slow flow from the first of 

 April, enough to cause the bees to 

 build up fast, and swarm if they 

 didn't have plenty of room. Of course, 

 I have rousing swarms. If they are 

 crowded at first I put an empty body 

 under the hive until they begin work, 

 when I remove it and contract to five 

 frames, and put on two or more sup- 

 ers filled with drawn combs; and if 

 there is any honey in the flowers the 

 bees will get it. 



"Don't expect honey from a weak 

 stand. Don't expect to get a rousing 

 big colony in one eight-frame brood- 

 nest. Don't hive or brush swarm on 

 drawn comh.s. Don't give a frame of 

 brood and the rest of the frames with 

 starters. 



Binish on wired frames with one- 

 half inch starters to get best results. 

 If all bees are brushed from the old 

 hive, fill the entrance with green 

 leaves to keep out robbers. If you 



get more combs than needed, cull out 

 all undesirable ones and render into 

 wax. 



"By the "shook-swarm" method I 

 ran 150 colonies this season, and have 

 taken off 7,000 pounds of honey. I 

 also ran a truck-farm and garden and 

 small dairy with the help of my two 

 small sons. 



"Before I adopted the brush-swarm 

 method I had to have a hired hand; 

 but now I have his board and wages, 

 and get more honey in better shape. 

 I am of the opinion there are more 

 practicing the "shook-swarm" method 

 than you are aware of." 



PRODUCER'S NAME ON COMB HONEY. 



There may be Instances in Which the 

 Dealer Would Object. 



I have always rather favored the 

 idea of the producer putting his name 

 and address upon each section of 

 honey that he placed upon the mar- 

 ket. It would advertise his honey, 

 and some consumers might send to 

 him direct for their honey, and he 

 would thus be able to make sales at 

 a retail price. That the dealer might 

 o))ject, and the reasons for such ob- 

 jction, are very clearly stated in the 

 following editorial in a late issue of 

 the American Bee Journal: 



"We received a nice lot of white 

 comb honey a few weeks ago. It 

 came in excellent condition, because 

 the producer who shipped it followed 

 our instructions as to packing. But 

 when we opened it, we found that not 

 only on every case, but on every sec- 

 tion as well, he had rubber-stamped 

 his name and address. Of course we 

 had to spend the time necessary to 

 scrape off all the marks. Had we 

 wanted the producer's name and ad- 

 dress on the honey we would have re- 

 quested him to put it on. 



