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neighbors get their twenties, their tens, and their noughts. 
I give the reader an instance of a cottager who secured 
an average of 72 lbs. of section honey from his eleven hives 
during the unfortunate season of 1902, with no unusual 
crop near him, while other bee-keepers near secured 
twenty-one sections from one bar-frame, and nothing from 
another. Another had 110 lbs. from three frame hives; 
while among straw skeps, few had sufficient store for 
winter. 
Young Queens ; No Swarming ; Large Profits. 
My non-swarming system as relating to the management 
of the Conqueror Hive; and my original methods of 
controlling swarming are all set out in conjunction with 
the great corner stone of practical procedure—the pro- 
duction of young queens yearly, to take the place of the 
older queens at exactly the right time for ensuring the 
highest results according to the operation in hand. 
I have already demonstrated that the Conqueror Hive 
is the nearest approach to perfection in the economic 
restriction of swarming, but it is not to be supposed that 
there ends all need of care on the part of the owner. For 
instance, if he will make a nucleus in early Spring, and rear 
a young queen, she can be given to the stock while the 
older queen will build up the nucleus to a stock, to be 
united to the full hive after the season is over; while, in 
the meantime, the presence of the young queen avoids 
swarming, and prevents the excessive production of drone 
combs.* 
Then, as regards “Combined Swarming and Doubling” 
without increase; a young queen is given to the united 
swarm, so that further swarming may be avoided, and 
* Even with all worker foundation supplied, the bees will replace 
patches by drone cells at times. 
