1..1:16 in., depth 7-8 inch. Slip cut out for nailing in foundation. End 
Bays, or Posts, length 9% inches, width 1 1-16 inches, thickness % inch. 
Housel at each end to receive top and bottom bars. Pierced for wiring. 
Bottom Bar, length 17% inches, width % inch, thickness 5-16 inch, Lugs, 
width % inch, thickness 5-16 inch. Metal spacers extend width of end 
bars to 18 inches. End Staples under lugs extending %4 inch. 
As some beekeepers have not used the end spacing staples, whereby 
the length of the top bar, viz. 18% inches, is apt to permit it to drop 
down into the hive-body, it has been suggested that the top bars in future 
be made 18 15-16 inches in length. Beekeepers can easily reduce this ty 
18% inches, if they wish. 
In order to conform to the % inch stanjard of the lumber trade, and 
by so doing economize material, it is also suggested that the depth of the 
top bar be reduced t» % inch, instead of % inch, and the end bars be 
made 5-16 inch in thickness, instead cf % inch. 
, SWARM CONTROL AND THE TREATMENT OF SWARMS ; 
As only one main honey flow, usually commencing about the middle of 
July, can as a rule be reckoned on in the Kootenays, and this of com- 
paratively short duration, it is essential tx have all the hives at their. 
maximum strength at this particular time, so that the bees are in just the 
-right condition, and therefore, in readiness to take the fullest advantage of 
it. They may then be expected to store the largest quantity of honey pos- 
‘sible. A good system of swarm control can usually be relied on to acc-mp- 
lish this. If the bees swarm, as they generally do under ordinary circum- 
stances, when left to their own devices, just before, or at some period 
during this honey flow, the cr=p will be nearly all lost to the beekeeper, un- 
less the colony is built up again, as near as can be, to its original strength, 
_prior to swarming. Failing this the bulk of the honey that is gatherel is 
used up by the bees in the production of more brood and bees instead of 
being stored in the supers. 
Some beekeepers make the mistake of dividing their colonies just 
before the honey flow and thereby lose the honey crop. ' 
There are two. methods of swarm control that have been tried here 
and found to be satisfactory. The first is what is usually known as the De. 
DEMAREE PLAN ” maree plan, and is operated as follows: Just be- 
fore the colony is ready to swarm put all the 
brood excepting one or two irames, in a second 
story over a queen excluder, (two frames seem 
Super 
to be best, as otherwise the bees may neglect 
the queen), leaving the queen below with the one 
or two frames of brosd, the vacancies at the sides 
8 frames (of brood peing filled with empty combs,’ failing which 
eierapt ieee ies full sheets of foundation. Cut out all queen 
side. cells at the same time, if there are any, and 
search for and destroy any queen cells, on 
We eee on eases the eighth or ninth day afterwards, that may 
5 frames ot bieed be found in the second story. The brood frames 
(larvae)and Queen in in the second story, as soon as the brood 
centre of & frames of hatches out, will be used by the bees for stor- 
drawn comb, ing honey. Add other supers above the second 
I 1 story, as needed, ° 
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