COMB HONEY—HONEY FLOW AND HARVEST.—Chapter XIV. 
be built up into full colo- 
nies. But in those few cases 
in which a colony still per- = 
sists in building queen-cells it 
would perhaps be just as = 
well to let them swarm and 
then hive them as described 
on pages 63-70. 
When swarming occurs in 
the midst of the honey flow, 
the swarm should not be giv- 
en a new location, for this 
divides the working force of 
the colony so that neither 
the swarm nor the parent 
colony is able to do much A day or two later the old hive is moved close to 
work in the supers. But the new one, ready to be moved to a new loca- 
when. the swans hived an tion for eee Oe ees eighth day after 
a new hive, placed on the 
old stand as described on page 63, and the supers are transferred from 
the old hive to the new one, the newly hived swarm will have all of the 
field bees, so that work in the supers should continue without interruption. 
The parent colony being moved to one side loses its field bees because they 
enter the new hive on the old stand as they return from the fields. A week 
after the prime swarm issued, the parent colony is again moved to a new 
location, this time some distance away to prevent after-swarming, which 
again strengthens the new colony. 
To Anticipate Swarming. 
The beginner who must be away during the middle of the day, when 
the bees are most likely to swarm, should examine his colonies once a week 
to look for queen-cells. When queen-cells are found just recently started, 
containing only eggs or very small larvae, they should be destroyed and the 
colony. left for another week. It is usually necessary to shake the bees 
from the combs when destroying such cells, in order to be sure none are 
missed. If cells containing larger larvae are found, it usually does no 
good to destroy them, for the colony would no doubt then go ahead with 
their preparations for swarming after having gone so far as to have 
queen-cells well advanced. Jn such cases, swarming can be anticipated by 
the following method: 
Find the queen and put the comb on which she is found to one side, 
then shake the bees from most of the other combs into or in front of their 
hive. As the combs of brood are removed put frames containing either 
narrow strips of foundation, full sheets of foundation, or combs into the 
hive and replace the supers. If narrow strips of foundation are used it is 
necessary to place a queen-excluder between the brood-chamber and supers 
until the brood-nest is well established. When most of the shaken bees 
are in the hive, place the queen among them. Put all the combs of 
brood and the few bees remaining thereon into another hive placed close 
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