EXTRACTED HONEY -HONEY FLOW AND HARVEST.-Chap. XII. 
them, will abscond and be lost if not hived promptly. In some cases, more- 
over, even though their queen is clipped and can not accompany the swarm, 
the swarming bees may escape by joining some runaway swarm and leave 
for the woods or some other new home. When well-advanced queen-cells 
are found indicating that the colony is determined to swarm, the following 
treatment may be given. 
Swarm Prevention with Increase. 
Temporarily place an empty hive-body beside the brood-chamber, and, 
after tearing down all capped queen-cells, put into it all the combs from the 
brood-chamber with adhering bees, with the exception of one comb con- 
taining some larvae and the queen. Be sure that the queen with a few 
aide bees is on the one comb left in the brood-chamber. 
| On either side of this comb place sufficient frames 
cs = ' of foundation (or preferably drawn combs) to fill 
BROOD the brood-chamber, and put a frame of foundation 
& HONEY (preferably a drawn comb) into the hive-body to 
which the brood has been removed in order to make 
a nies up the 10 frames there. Above the brood-chamber 
SUPER put a queen-excluder, replace the supers, adding 
empty ones, if necessary, to have at least three shal- 
= = low or two deep supers. These supers may be part- 
SUPER ly filled with honey, but the lower one should be 
left with plenty of room for storing. Next, on 
QUEEN top of all should be placed the hive-body of brood 
> = just removed from the brood-chamber. Some pro- 
BROOD vide a small opening in one of the upper stories to 
Lo. | SRAMEER permit the escape of drones, but most of the bees 
continue to use the regular hive entrance below. 
ase sae pee This upper hive is so far removed from the 
pers and queen con- lower that the bees in it, to all intents and purposes, 
fined below with but are now a queenless colony, and thus the bees seem 
ee eee to regard it, for they straightway proceed to 
finish the splendid-looking queen-cells just as they ordinarily do under the 
swarming impulse, and yet in the hive below no queen-cells appear. At 
the end of seven or eight days nearly all the brood in this upper hive will 
be sealed and some of the queens just about ready to emerge. The upper- 
most hive may then be moved to a new location for increase, and left with 
the entrance contracted. All but the best queen-cell should be destroyed. Of 
course, a floor and a cover should be given to this new colony. The queen- 
cell left in the hive should be the best one, long and plump, with well-de- 
fined pits on the sides. To avoid injuring the unemerged queen, the frames 
should be carefully handled without jarring and held in the same position. 
in which they were hanging in the hive. 
During the whole operation of making increase under the swarming 
impulse (as just described) the hive is opened but twice, and it is opened 
the second time only to set the uppermost story on a new stand. The work 
of the colony has not been interrupted in the slightest; the brood, until 
sealed, has been left in the warmest part of the hive, and the whole colony 
left for a week to increase the new one. But, ahove all else, the success of the 
plan is doubtless due to the fact that the method so closely follows nature’s 
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