A variation of this method, which is sometimes followed, is to place 
‘tthe old hive close to the swarm, that has been hived on the original stand, 
cand face it the same way. A week later the old hive is moved to a new 
location, ten'feet or more distant. The swarm is by this means further 
‘strengthened with the flying bees from the old hive, and the latter will be 
‘too weakenel to swarm apain. 
‘When a first swarm isswes and increase is not required a very g 701 
‘plan is to remove all the brood from below and place it in a top story 
above the supers. Then return the swarm to the old brood chamber, that 
has been filled with empty combs, vr full sheets of foundation, below a 
‘queen excluder, Cut out all the queen cells in the brood frames above 
‘and also any more that may be built there, on the eighth or ninth day 
afterwards. Or a small entrance can be given above so that a young queen 
‘can fly out and get mated and then be used to replace the old queen below. 
If this is done it would be advisable to use another queen excluder so as 
to confine the young queen t the top story and so prevent her from laying 
‘eggs in the super. 
One of the largest prolucers of honey in the province, who uses eight 
frame hives, manages them as follows: 
All queens are clipped and allowed access to two hive-bodies (sixteen 
‘Langstroth frames) a queen excluder being placed above the sec-nd one. 
‘One additional deep hive-body only is used as a super, the combs from 
which are removed and extracted as soon as they are filled with honey, 
and then replaced, to be extracted again and again as soon ag ready, When 
‘a swarm comes out it is returned to the same hive, all queen cells but one 
being destroyed, and the old queen killed. When adopting this: method 
it will doubtless be found necessary to use more than one super in most 
localities so that the honey will then have a better chance of being 
rirened end sealed over by the bees, 
_THE PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY. 
Extracted h-ney is mostly produced by using the ordinary deep 
Langstroth frames in the supers, although shallow extracting frames 4% 
inches in depth are sometimes used as well. The latter are made 4% in, 
deep so as to be interchangeable with hanging section frames. If a good 
supply of built out combs is on hand, this being a beekeeper’s most 
valuable asset, large yields of honey can be obtained, in spite of the honey 
flows being of short duration in the Kootenays, provided that the hives 
are at full strength, and this is maintained while the flow is on. It is im- 
portant to keep on adding supers as soon as the bets require more room, 
which it is better in this climate, to place on the top, instead of between. 
-Three deep supers will generally be found sufficient and need to be kept 
in readiness. When filled these will contain about 150Tbs, of honey. The 
largest quantity of extracted honey reported as having been taken from 
cne hive in the Kootenays, in a ee season, was 342 pounds, at Castlegar 
in 1918. 
THE PRODUCTION OF SECTIONS.AND CHUNK HONEY 
Comparatively few of the Kootenay beekeepers have as yet started 
‘to produce sections and chunk honey, although there, is ‘a Bood demand fot 
both. Bees will commence work in sections more readily if they are al 
ternated with extracting frames, especially if these contain built out 
combs. For this purpose hanging section frames made to take, preferably 
4Y4,x44,x1¥% inch, plain, or no-bee-way sections are required, with two 
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