THE SUCCESSFUL HONEY PRODUCER. 



Many bee-keepers fail to secure a surplus through allowing uncon- 

 trolled swarming ; hiving the swarm separately ; often losing the swarm, 

 or failing to make the best use of the summer increase of numbers. 



Ninety-nine per cent, of bee-owners, including many so-called experts, 

 lose vast quantities of honey tliat their bees would otherwise have stored 

 had their energies and numbers been skilfully directed. Then they 

 blame the weather for their own mismanagement. 



The First swarm 



should always be placed on the original stand, and the old combs 

 with adhering bees moved to one side, or quite a fresh location, should 

 a limited increase be required. 



The swarm on the original site receives the supers after three days, 

 and the moved lot losing so many adult bees, will not swarm again 

 if treated as presently shown. The object being not to return the 

 supers until the swarm has combs well on the way in the stock chamber, 

 otherwise pollen will be stored in the sections. 



Correct Management makes queen-excluders unnecessary under the 

 supers ; they hinder the bees, restrict the output, and tend to induce 

 swarming. 



The use of excluder zinc between stock chambers, or under supers 

 (unless working more than one queen), is only a confession of failure 

 to produce better results without it. 



AVhen the original combs are moved merely to one side, the two lots 

 may be reunited when the young queen is laying ; the old queen being 

 removed three days before the union, and the supers replaced. 



Dividing better than Swarming. 



It is much better to divide in the first instance, as soon !is the hive 

 is crowded, rather than wait for the uncertainty of natural swarming, 

 with the (frequent) risk of the swarm — the vital force of the hive — 

 flying away. There go the whole season's aims, hopes, and profit. 



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