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hive the more storing we shall have even if a good many of the 

 bees be quite young. 



Without, perhaps, giving any satisfactory reason for it, I 

 am also quite of the opinion that better work is generally done 

 when bees are allowed to' go right along rearing brood at their 

 own sweet will ; for toward the close of the harvest they, of their 

 own accord, curtail work in that direction. 



Fig. 57 — Folding Sections. 



NON-SWARMING PEEFEERED TO FORCED. 



While I yield to no one in my appreciation of the advan- 

 tages of forced swarming over natural swarming, I believe that 

 the advantages of no swarming whatever over forced swarming 

 are as great as the advantages of forced over natural swarming. 



So you will hardly blame me if instead of resting content 

 with forced swarming I continue to puisue that will-o'-the-wisp 

 — in the opinion of many — non-swarming. 



KEEPING COLONIES QtTEENLESS. 



The next season after practicing the removal of two frames 

 of brood, I settled upon a plan which I felt pretty sure would 



