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board, and keep the bees crowded, especially if weak in 
the spring. Only give them the number of combs that 
they can cover. Keep them warmly covered. Though 
this last may with proper management be unnecessary, it 
certainly does no harm; it may aid greatly. True, Mr. 
Heddon objects to this work of feeding and manipulating 
division boards, and makes much honey and money. I 
have often wondered what his genius and skill would accom- 
plish should he vary his method in this respect. Instead 
of feeding by use of the White (Fig. 91) or. other feeder, 
we may uncap a comb of honey and with it separate combs 
of brood as the bees get two or three full frames of the 
latter, This will stimulate the bees, and as they will carry 
the honey from the uncapped cells the queen will be 
impelled to most rapid laying. We may also fill empty 
combs as already described and place these in or close beside 
the brood-nest. By turning around the brood combs, or 
separating them by adding combs with empty cells as the 
colonies gain in strength, we hasten brood-rearing to the 
utmost. This matter of separating the brood-combs must 
be very cautiously managed or brood will be chilled and 
much harm done. 
TO AVOID THE SWARMING FEVER, 
This is not always possible by any method, and has ever 
been the obstacle in the way of successful comb-honey pro- 
duction. The swarming impulse and great yields of this de- 
lectable product are entirely antagonistic. Mr. James Hed- 
don, Davis, and others let the beesswarm. They hive these 
swarms on foundation, and hope to have this all done, and 
both colonies strong, in time for the honey harvest. Messrs. 
Hutchinson and Doolittle hive the swarm on empty frames, 
always, however, with starters, placing sections with their 
foundation or better, comb on the hive at once. They also 
restrict the brood chamber, either by filling space with 
division boards Lees or by using the lower half of 
a horizontally divided brood chamber (Hutchinson, see 
new Heddon hive, p. 189). In this way the whole work- 
ing force is put at once into the sections. Some of our 
best Michigan and New York bee-keepers, with Dr. 
