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VOL. XXVII 



NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN, MAY 1. 1914 



No. 5 



A Retrospect 



By ADRIAN GETAZ, KnoxviUe, Tenn. 



The year 1913 is come and gone 

 never to return. My best wishes 

 for 1914 to the Review and its 

 editor and readers. Let us look 

 baclc and see what we can learn 

 from the year just gone and make 

 good use of it. 



Prevention of Swarming 



On page 222, Miss Mathilda 

 Candler gives a method for the 

 ])revention of swarming. Substant- 

 ially the method is this: Close the 

 entrance with a board having a 

 cone bee escape permitting the 

 bees to come out but not to go 

 back. Nail on the top of the brood 

 nest a piece of wire cloth. The ob- 

 ject is to empty the brood nest of 

 bees as much as possible. Put over 

 the wire cloth a hive body with 

 some empty comb and brood anc 



finally the supers on top of this. 

 Pour days later put the whole back 

 to its normal condition. No swarm- 

 ing will occur. 



ITiere is no doubt that this meth- 

 od will prevent swarming for that 

 season except in very exceptional 

 conditions. I have tried a similar 

 plan myself. The only difference was 

 that I put the supers immediately 

 on the brood nest or rather on a 

 rim in which an entrance to the 

 .supers was provided. The only trou- 

 ble was that during the few days 

 that the apparatus was on very lit- 

 tle work was done in the supers, 

 and losing four or more days' work 

 during tlie height of the flow was 

 more than I cared to stand so I 

 returned to my old way of cag- 

 ing the queens. A similar method 

 of preventing swarming is describ- 



