and tts Economic Management. 257 
Combined Swarming and Doubling without Increase. 
In my 1886 pamphlet, page 29, under “ How to Control 
Swarming,” J described my method of avoiding increase, 
while making swarms and securing immense populations, 
thus : “Select any two strong colonies . . . no matter 
how far apart, remove from one all the brood combs but 
two left in the centre with no queen cells; give their own 
queen and fill up with three frames, having guides only on 
either side. Now return aM the bees by shaking and 
brushing from the combs, and also one-half of those bees 
from the second colony. On the third day remove the old 
queen, and insert one of those recently fertilised. Then 
put on supers of a capacity of not less than 40 lbs. at one 
time, with all sections filed with combs. As soon as the 
upper set is completed, remove, and insert another in its 
place, though if the weather is promising, the district good, 
and the season still young, it would be much better to 
place the empty combs under that crate remaining. 
If the apiarist is working with such stocks as alone give a 
profit, a large super room should be given at the start 
but cramp them to begin with, and they are 
cramped in every way to the end of Summer. 
“Returning to the second hive, which had been deprived 
of half its bees, we place above them another hive 
containing the remainder of the brood combs from No. 1, 
filling up with empty combs or starters on either side. 
First arrange a hive with guides only at the bottom, and 
proceed as previously mentioned for extracting. The old 
queen in this case is not to be superseded until all surplus 
has been removed, when the nucleus reserved for them may 
be united to such colony, and the combined forces fed up 
for Winter, if more stores be needed. 
“By the above, though with more labor, all the advan- 
tages of non-swarming are obtained, and neither stock 
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