COMB HONEY. 29 
USING THE REMOVED BROOD TO BEST ADVANTAGE. 
The disposition of the brood that is left when a swarm issues should 
be such that (1) no ‘“‘after-swarms”’ (swarms resulting from the 
emergence of a plurality of virgin queens) are permitted to issue and 
(2) that the emerging workers may be 
used to the best advantage. | 
‘‘After-swarming’’ may be prevented fs 
by (1) breaking up the parent colony be- = 
fore any of. the young queens emerge, pases 
using the unhatched brood elsewhere, (2) m= 
by destroying all queen cells but one be- | 4 
fore any young queens emerge, or (3) by = = 
greatly reducing the population of the par- 
ent colony! just before the young queens 
emerge. 
If swarming occurs at a time when the 
resulting young bees can take part in g ath- Fic. 14.—Colony before swarming; 
ering and storing the crop of honey, the supers in place, (Original) 
usual practice is to allow the brood to emerge in a separate hive and later 
to add these young bees to the colony from which it was taken. Under 
such circumstances this reenforcement of the swarm is especially desira- 
ble, since otherwise its forces are constantly diminishing during the 21 
days (the time required for worker brood to develop) immediately 
following the removal of all its brood. The brood, however, may be 
used anywhere in 
L = the apiary and 
: should be placed 
= where the resulting 
bees will be most 
needed. The plans 
given below make 
use of at least a 
part of the emerg- 
ing bees in reenforc- 
ing the swarm from 
which the brood was 
taken. 
Fic. 15.—Brood placed in hive turned 90 degrees from old entrance. * When hiving nat- 
ici ural swarms on the 
old location as suggested above, the old brood chamber is provided 
with a bottom and cover and set aside, usually with its entrance 
turned away about 90° from its former position (figs. 14,15). This 
1 The term ‘‘parent colony’? applies to the one in the hive from which the swarm issues and is in common 
use, though the correctness of the term is questionable. 
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