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up as new supers are added, and more or less trouble will be 
necessary to separate the frames containing brood from those 
with honey only, at time of first extracting. 
If empty supers are placed underneath, no harm will result, 
even though they be given some time in advance of when they 
are needed, and the extra room tends to keep down swarming. 
Swarm Control.—It often happens that the extracted honey 
producer with his large hives has little difficulty from swarming, 
and need give the matter little special attention. The method of 
handling this matter most generally in use is known as the 
Demaree method. As soon as the brood nest is getting sufficiently 
crowded to require the addition of more room, the queen is 
hunted out and a frame of brood, preferably the one on which 
she is found, is lifted from the hive. An empty comb from the 
hive body used as a super is exchanged for it. The queen will 
then be on a frame of brood in a hive body of empty combs. A 
queen excluder is then placed on top of this new body and the 
old one already full of brood and honey is set on top of it in the 
usual place. The queen is now provided with an abundance of 
empty comb in which to lay. In fact her surroundings are simi- 
lar to what they would be, had she recently come into possession 
of a new hive in company with a swarm. The colony wili build 
up wonderfully in a short time, and not only will the desire to 
swarm be eliminated, but a tremendous working force will be 
present in the hive at the beginning of the honey flow. If addi- 
tional room is provided as needed, further use of the excluder will 
hardly be necessary and it can be removed after two or three 
weeks. 
In addition to the above advantages, the brood will be in the 
bottom of the hive, and the honey can be removed as fast as 
ripened and taken to the extracting room. While other methods 
of swarm control are practised to some extent in connection with 
extracted honey production, this plan is most generally used. 
It is also the simplest and surest in its results of any with which 
the author is familiar. 
