The owner should never allow the risks of natural swarming, and lose 

 control of the vital forces of liouey production that a good bee-colony 

 offers. 



There are thousands of such swarms allowed to stray away every 

 summer, and then the helpless owners, judging only by their depleted 

 hives, think that bee-keeping does not pay. 



SWARMING WITHOUT INCREASE. 



Many years ago S. Simmins was challenged by a writer in the British 

 Bee Jounial to show how to allow the equivalent of natural swarming,, 

 wliile at the same time retaining the full working force of the colony 

 without permanent increase. 



He had no difficulty in explaining his method of hiving the swarm 

 on the old stand, and re-uniting with the young queen as soon as she 

 became fertile. Many of Simmins' correspondents havhig since shown 

 how they have secured large yields, even in poor seasons, by following 

 this definite met hud. 



Treatment of Queen-cells after swarming or dividing. 



After placing the natural Swarm ou its original stand, it is desirable 

 to wait seoeii, days before destroying all queen-cells but one that may be 

 ou those combs moved away. 



Otherwise remove all queen-cells (when capped) just before inserting a 

 young fertile queen. 



If dividing just before queen-cells are ready to be capped — always 

 better than allowing natural swarming — then it is better to wait nine 

 days before removing the queen-cells. The very important point being 

 that the staiting of further queen-cells must be avoided. Others are 

 certain to be developed if the queen-cells are removed too early. 



SWARMING & DOUBLING WITHOUT INCREASE. 



While the former plan is essentially suitable for comb-honey product- 

 ion, allowing the re-united bees only one stock chamber, S. Simmins 

 has offered the further plan of treating two stocks when working for 

 extracted honey. 



Two stocks standing near together are swarmed by moving one hive 

 right away, about 11 a.m. on a warm morning. From the other hive at 

 the same time remove all the combs with about half the quantity of 

 bees, shaking the bees from alternate combs back ivith the queen, and 

 place these combs above the other (moved) lot in an additional chamber. 



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