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entrance to the rear brood-chamber, I 

 took from the fact that it is more natural 

 for bees to go up into a hive, as they are 

 in the habit of doing through a short pas- 

 sage-way, than it would be to go down 

 and under through a long one, and it 

 worl<s that way in practice. But to get 

 out. they will go in any direction toward 

 the light for a considerable distance. 



But to go back to the manipulation of 

 the hive: All the work of arranging the 

 bottom-boards which I have described is 

 supposed to have been done on the stand 

 of a strong colony of bees, or one about 

 to swarm, and which has been set off its 

 stand for the purpose. The first thing to 

 do after arranging the bottom boards as 

 described, is to put on the front one a 

 brood-chamber arranged as for the hiving 

 of a natural swarm, with frames of foun- 



all the parts are closed up bee-tight ex- 

 cept the entrances, and the work is done. 



I still use a queen-excluding honey- 

 board, which is shown in dark color on 

 the hive in Fig. 4. There are reasons 

 for this, but I will not take up that part 

 of the subject, nor other details of man- 

 agement, for that must be according to 

 location, the size and kind of hive in use, 

 etc., and if any one wishes to try this 

 method he must arrange those things to 

 suit himself. 



E. F. Atwater, in the February Bee- 

 Keepers' Review, tells of his method, 

 which is similar to this, and speaks of 

 putting a comb containing water into the 

 brood-chamber containing the brood. I 

 believe that is an excellant idea, and I 

 will try it in the future. 



So far this method is the most satisfac- 



Fig. 4. — Complete Hive-Arrangement for Swarm-Control. 



dation, or combs, as the bee-keeper may 

 think best, and on it put the supers, bees 

 and all from the removed hive. Back of 

 this, on the rear bottom-board, put the 

 brood-chamber of the removed hive, con- 

 taining the brood and queen, and close up 

 the space between witli the piece of board 

 described. 



In Fig. 4 the prepared brood-chamber 

 is marked 1 1, and the one containing the 

 brood and queen is marked 1. Next re- 

 move the queen from 1 and put (her and 

 perhaps a few of her bees for company 

 until enough return from the field) into 

 hive 1 1, put on the covers, and see that 



tory of any 1 have tried, in meeting all the 

 requirements of both comb and extracted 

 honey production, and if any one thinks 

 well enough of the plan to try it, 1 wish 

 he would report results to the American 

 Bee Journal, no matter if it is a failure, 

 for by failures we often learn to succeed. 

 One thing I forgot, which is, that I 

 think it is best to cut out the queen-cells 

 before they hatch, that will be built in the 

 rear brood-chamber, for the bees will 

 agree better when they come together at 

 the entrance; but the queen-cells can be 

 left long enough to make use of them in 

 the bee-yard, if required. 



