INCREASE.—Chapter XV. 
and these young bees will remain with the brood, it being the only home 
they have ever known. 
The two colonies may, under favorable conditions and by careful 
management, be built up into good strong ones ready for the main honey 
crop, if in a location where it can be put into operation six or eight weeks 
before the opening of the honey flow. This can be done in some parts of 
the South and in the buckwheat region of New York and Pennsylvania, 
but not in those localities in northeastern United States where most of the 
honey crop is gathered fram white and alsike clover. 
Increase When Producing Extracted Honey. 
One of the easiest and best ways of making increase when producing 
extracted honey is to use the plan given on page 75, that is, to leave in the 
brood-chamber the queen with only frames of drawn comb and one frame 
with young larvae; above this the queen-excluder, the supers and then at 
the top, a hive-body contaiming the frames of brood removed from the 
brood-chamber, tearing down all the capped queen-cells, and then at the 
end of eight days tearing down all but the one best queen-cell in this upper 
story and moving this upper story to a new location, placing it on a 
floor and covering with an inner and an outer cover. Now, if one cares 
more for the production of honey than for increase, he perhaps better not 
apply this plan until he finds capped queen-cells and the bees bent on 
swarming; but, if he wants increase, he may apply the plan as soon as 
queen-cells are started. 
Increase When Producing Comb Honey. 
When producing comb honey the greater tendency of the bees to 
swarm, usually results in about as much increase as it is safe for the be- 
ginner to make. When swarms, either natural or artificial, are handled as 
described on pages 87 and 88 there will be an increase of one colony for 
each colony that swarms naturally, or is swarmed artificially as described 
on page 88. When swarming occurs in the midst of a short honey flow, 
increase made in this way does not interfere with the production of honey, 
for the increase is made by moving away the hive containing the emerging 
brood, most of which would develop too late for the young bees to take 
part.in gathering the honey crop. 
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