WHY BEES SWARM 



often happens that swarms will come out 

 when he is not there to attend to them, and it 

 seldom pays to keep a man watching for them. 



This has led to a long-expressed desire for 

 a race of non-swarming bees, but no such 

 race is in sight, and beekeepers generally 

 have taken up the next best thing, namely, 

 preventive measures. 



The dangers of losses from swarming have 

 led a majority of beekeepers to devote their 

 yards to the production of extracted honey, 

 as by this plan the honey can be extracted as 

 soon as the combs are nearly filled, and thus 

 additional room can be given to the bees. 



When the apiary is devoted to the produc- 

 tion of comb honey, the problem becomes more 

 serious, as the combs must of necessity be left 

 on the hives until entirely sealed over, or else 

 they will not be salable, and leaving them to 

 be sealed impels the bees to swarm. To 

 overcome this, a new plan was tried out some 

 few years ago, and generally it has resulted 

 in practically a complete control of swarming, 



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