82 The Townsend Bee Book 
Finally, by having young queens to take their flight after the 
season is over, there is less than one per cent of swarms during 
that time. We have tried this plan and found it to be a good one. 
Mr. E. E. Coveyou, of Petoskey, usually has his own way of 
doing things, and his method of making up winter loss and work- 
ing for increase is no exception. When he finds cells being built 
in any of his colonies preparatory to swarming, the colony is shak- 
en into a hive filled with combs or foundation.* After the bees 
and queen have been shaken from the combs, the brood is removed 
to some weak or moderately strong colony, to be taken care of for 
six or seven days. At the end of this time the brood is placed on 
a bottom-board beside the before-mentioned medium colony, over 
which it has been for the previous few days, and both hives are so 
placed as to get about the same number of flying bees. A new 
colony will thus be made from the brood. 
If he desires to make two colonies from the brood he divides 
it and sets the two halves on the old stand so as to catch all of the 
flying force, the original medium colony of this stand then being 
moved to some other stand. If there are cells to be saved in the 
brood, a queen-excluder must be used between the upper story of 
brood and the medium colony before the division. 
If this brood from the shaken swarm had been set on a stand 
of its own at the time of shaking, much of the unsealed larve 
would have been lost by the bees leaving it and going back to the 
old stand. 
If Mr. Coveyou finds that more increase is needed than he 
can get from the colonies having cells, the required number of 
cells are provided by the plan already described. 
* If one has the foundation, this is the place to use it, for the combs may be used later. 
