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Farmers' Bulletin 1198 



This plan is useful in extracted- 

 honey production provided the honey 

 flow is not greatly prolonged. It may 

 not be suflBcient completely to control 

 swarming during a prolonged honey 

 flow, since the colonies may later 

 again prepare to swarm. For a long 

 honey flow plan No. 3 may be prefer- 

 able. 



This plan does not lend itself read- 

 ily to comb-honey production, because 

 bees usually do not begin work well 

 in comb-honey supers when two hive 

 bodies are used for the brood (flg. 9, 

 A), and the queen therefore may not 

 abandon the lower hive body, as she 

 does when extracting combs are used 



which she was taken is now removed 

 and managed as a parent colony (fig. 

 9, 0). This treatment may be suffi- 

 cient when the honey flow is short in 

 duration, but if the honey flow is 

 long, swarming may be only delayed 

 by this process. However, by giving 

 a ripe queen cell to the parent colony 

 soon after the division is made, then 

 after the young queen begins to lay 

 substituting the brood chamber con- 

 taining the young queen for the brood 

 chamber containing the old queen, 

 conditions comparable to the parent 

 colony (p. 23) are created (flg. 9, i)). 

 Such colonies, as a rule, do not attempt 

 to swarm again the same season. 



Fid. 10. — Creatine conditions comparable to a swarm. Plan 3 for extracted honey. &., 

 Colony In single story in early spring. S, Second brood chamber (2) is added when 

 more room for brood rearing is needed. C, Ten days later the queen is placed below 

 excluder (i), super (3) is added, and brood chamber (2) is placed on top. D, Ten days 

 later the queen cells in brood ■chamber (2) are destroyed, the queen is placed m lowest 

 hive body (5), which contains empty combs or combs and foundation, the queen bemg 

 confined to this chamber by a queen excluder ; empty super (i) is added and brood 

 chamber (i) is placed on top 



in the supers. For comb-honey pro- 

 duction, however, a queen excluder 

 may be inserted between the two hive 

 bodies 10 days previous to the time of 

 putting on the comb-honey supers, the 

 queen being in this way excluded from 

 one of them (fig. 9, B). After 10 days, 

 by removing and examining a single 

 comb for eggs and larvse, it can be de- 

 termined which hive body contains the 

 queen. The queen should then be 

 transferred to the hive body from 

 which she has been excluded either by 

 finding her or by shaking all of the 

 bees, including the queen, from the 

 combs. The hive body to which the 

 queen has just been transferred is 

 left on the old stand as the new brood 

 chamber and the hive body from 



3. When the bees need more room 

 for brood rearing in the spring,' give 

 a set of brood combs (preferably old, 

 dark combs), placing them on top of 

 the original brood chamber (fig. 10, 

 A, B). If the colony is strong at 

 this time the queen will enter this 

 added brood chamber promptly, 

 usually neglecting the lower hive 

 body until the upper one is filled with 

 brood, honey, and pollen. Ten days 

 later, or at about the time of the be- 

 ginning of the honey flow, the brood 

 in the lower story should all be 

 sealed. At this time transfer the 

 queen to the lower hive body, either 

 by flnding her or by shaking the bees 

 from the combs, from the upper into 

 the lower hive body, and confine the 



