SWARMING AND HIVING. 59 
It is well to keep on hand a few plain boxes, each 
with four moveable frames, like those in the Controllable 
Hive. If at any time a swarm comes out at the very 
last of the honey season, hive them in one of these boxes. 
They will probably enlarge or quite fill the four frames 
with comb, and perhaps store a little honey. Then, in 
the fall, put these four frames with the bees and comb, 
in a Controllable Hive, and add two frames, well filled 
with honey, from a stock that can spare it. In this way 
you will build up a good stock for winter, whereas if you 
had hived them in a full sized Controllable Hive so late 
in the season, they would probably have put a little 
comb in each of the six frames, but not enough to winter, 
rendering it necessary for you to feed with the liquid 
feed in the fall. It is better to have four frames nearly 
or quite filled with comb, than to have six frames with a 
very little comb in each. It sometimes happens that a 
swarm of bees, which has worked well in boxes through 
the entire honey season, wil! swarm about the time the 
yield of honey ceases. If managed on the old plan, such 
swarms are worthless, but by hiving them in a box with 
four moveable frames as directed, they make valuable 
stocks. All such swarms may be returned to the old 
stock, as directed in another chapter, yet we sometimes 
wish to increase the number of our stocks to the utmost, 
and it is convenient to know how to make valuable stock 
of these late issues. Then they can either be returned or 
hived, whichever the bee-keeper thinks is most for his or 
her interest. 
