258 A Modern Bee-Farm 
hive (whatever distance apart) is moved from its own 
stand.” Modifications of this method of 
Doubling Swarms and Uniting the Parent Stocks 
can be secured by using the whole of the flying bees of two 
stocks near together for making the new swarm, and then 
arranging the stock combs as another colony, as before. | 
The other alternative is that of doubling the stocks as 
they are with the whole of the combs, bees, and brood, 
not forgetting the gréat point of supplying a young queen 
at the time. 
Now is it not strange that prominent bee-men, year 
after year, are still straining after some method of con- 
trolling swarming. My pamphlet, from which the above 
is taken, was sold largely in this country and America, 
and prior to its issue no mention of a non-swarming hive 
or system had appeared in bee-literature of the period. 
Only quite recently our American friends have been 
exercising their minds over artificial swarms which they 
propose to call “shock” swarms, because they shake off 
part of the bees from the combs of a stock to form a 
swarm to be hived upon starters or full sheets of founda- 
tion ; thus in attempting to control swarming they make 
One Strong Stock into Two Weak Ones, 
a process which no advanced dee-master should tolerate. 
Bees can be sé easily united during a honey-flow that 
it seems hardly credible any honey producer can fail to see 
the advantages of uniting the double swarm near the old 
stands, and the two old stocks on a fresh site. This does 
away with any necessity of weakening a single colony in 
preventing swarming, and it is the basis of vast honey 
yields. : 
To those who wish to work their ordinary hives to the 
best advantage, I may say that 
