The following has also given good results: After the second story 

 has been added in the spring and it is time to put on a third story 

 the queen is transferred to the bottom story, on which a queen ex 

 cluder is placed. A story of empty combs is put on the bottom story, 

 next to the excluder, and the brood that was formerly the second story 

 now becomes the third story. Other stories are added as required. 

 Queen ceirs are likely to be started in the third story and if not re- 

 quired it is advisable to destroy them about the eighth day. 



Another plan for swarm prevention, which has the merit of sim- 

 plicity, is to remove or cage the queen, when the bees are strong enough 

 to make preparations for swarming, and cut out all queen, cells but one 

 on the eighth or ninth day afterwards. 



When swarms issue methods may be followed and a gopd crop of 

 honey obtained^ as well as increase of colonies. When as njnch • increase 

 as possible is desired the well known plan of hiving the swarm in a 

 new hive on the old stand, transferring the supers to it, and dividing 

 up the brood frames into two-frame nuclei, with a queen cell to each, 

 is good procedure. For moderate increase the following directions can 

 be put into practice: After a first, or prime swarm issues, (1) Move 

 old hive to a fresh stand. (2) Hive swarm in a new hive on the old 

 stand, on built out combs, or full sheets of foundation. (3) Transfer 

 supers to swarm. (4) On' the third or fourth day afterwards transfer four 

 or five'frames of sealed brood from the old hive to the swarm after cut- 

 ting out all the queen cells they may contain. Put these' in the second 

 story over queen excluder. (If preferred the old queen, that is with 

 the swarm, may be taken away at this stage, and a queen cell or newly 

 hatched queen ' substituted which should prevent the possibility of sec- 

 ond swarming). 



A variation of this method, whiph is sometimes followed, is to place 

 the old hive close 'to the swarm, that has been hived on the original 

 stand,^and face it the same way. A week later the old hive is moved 

 to a new location, ten feet or more distant. The swarm is by this means 

 further strengthened with the flying bees from the old hive, and th,e 

 latter will be too weakened to swarm again. , 



When a first swarm issues and increase is not required a Very good 

 plan is to remove all the brood from below and place it in a top story 

 above the supers. Then return the swarm to the brood chamber, that 

 has been filled with empty combs, or full sheets of foundation, below a 

 queen excluder. Cut out all the queen cells in the brood frames above 

 and also any more that may be built there, on the eighth or ninth day 

 .afterwards. Or a sniall entrance can be given above so that a young 

 queen can fly out and get mated and then be used to replace the old 

 queen below. ' If this is done It would be advisable to use> another 

 queen excluder so as to confine the young queen to the top story and so 

 prevent her from laying eggs in the super. 



If preferred the swarm may be returned by hiving it in a top story 

 over a queen excluder, afterwards taking away the old queen and leav- 

 ing a queen cell to hatch below. 



THE PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Extracted honey is usually produced by using the ordinary deen 

 -Langstroth frames in the supers. Shallow extracting frames 4?/ inrh 

 in, depth are sometimes used. The latter are made 4% inches deen 

 as to be interchangeable with hanging section frames If a eood ^^ 

 ply of built out combs is on hand, this being a beekeeper's most vllu- 



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