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Supers about 10 lb. weight are most readily sold. "We 

 got one 22 lb. -weight from a swarm last year. Prom the 

 non-swarmers, supers are got by cutting them off as soon 

 they, are full and putting empty ones in their places to be 

 filled. 



Both systems of management could be well carried out 

 in the same apiary. Suppose the owner has ten stock- 

 hives, five of which are permitted to swarm, and five 

 prevented from swarming : the non - swarming hives 

 would be greatly helped and strengthened by receiving 

 extra swarms in autumn from the others. 



"We conclude this chapter as we began, by saying that, 

 with an eye to profit, we greatly prefer the swarming mode 

 of management. Hives that do not swarm are often affected 

 and made useless by that awful and incurable disease of 

 " foul brood." 



