HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



even when the bees are kept for comb honey; 

 it is known as the "Shook Swarm Plan." 



About four days before the swarm is ready 

 to come forth, — and their purpose can easily 

 be told by the presence of queen cells and the 

 actions of the bees, — -the beekeeper lifts the 

 hive to one side, say two feet, and in its place 

 puts a new or empty hive in the frames of 

 which only starter strips have been placed, 

 not full sheets; and then lifting the frames 

 from the hive about to swarm, all or nearly all 

 of the bees are shaken at the entrance of the 

 new hive, being sure of course to shake the 

 queen. In some cases it may be best to put 

 a queen-excluding piece of perforated zinc 

 between the hive body of the new hive and its 

 supers to restrict the queen to the lower 

 chamber, and then the surplus bodies are 

 removed from the old hive, bees and all, and 

 placed on top of the new hive, as it would be 

 the height of folly to leave them on the original 

 hive, as the working force will be in the new hive. 



The question arises. What is to become of 

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