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Miller, let the bees swarm, and return them, either caging 
the queen or placing her in a nucleus for seven days, then 
return her to the bees, after cutting out the queen-cells. 
This takes nothing from the energy of the bees, and will 
doubtless work best of all methods in the hands of the 
-beginner. In this case, as the full energies of the colony are 
turned to storing, the amount of honey would be theoret- 
ically greater. My practice sustains the theory. Such 
authorities as Messrs. Hetherington and Elwood practice 
this method. J. H. Robertson kills the old queen, and in 
seven days destroys all but the largest queen-cell, and so 
gains the same end, and re-queens his apiary. If increase 
is desired, however, then Mr. Hutchinson’s method should 
be followed. The yield of comb honey in this last case will 
not usually be so great, though in excellent seasons it may 
be greater. 
Some very able bee-keepers manipulate so skillfully, by 
adding empty combs to the hives, as to keep this swarming 
impulse in check, and still keep the bees increasing most 
rapidly. Others divide the colonies, and so hold at bay the 
swarming fever. All must practice as their own experience 
proves best, as the same method will not have equal value 
with different persons. We must work as best we can to 
secure strong colonies, and check or retard the swarming 
fever, and while learning by experience to do this, may 
well work the most of our bees for extracted honey, which 
is more easily secured, and is sure to be in demand, even 
though the price is less) The quantity may more than 
compensate for lower price. 
ADJUSTMENT OF SECTIONS. 
As before suggested, a wide space between bottom bars 
of sections—three-eighths inch—is desirable. Mr. A. J. 
Green has half-story supers with frames only one-half as 
deep for extracting. These are put, one on each hive at 
the dawn of the honey harvest. As soon as the bees com- 
mence to work in them they are removed or raised and a 
section crate put in their place. As the bees commenee 
in the sections these extracting half-story hives are used 
one above another with such colonies as are worked for 
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