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are crowded for room. They will seldom 

 swarm unless they have made provision 

 for a new queen to supplant the old one 

 which always leads out the swarm. These 

 two facts give us a foundation on which 

 can he built some sort of system of swarm 

 prevention. 



We can nearly always give them more 

 room either by removing frames of brood 

 which we place in weaker colonies or by 

 supplying them with an additional hive 

 body placed directly on top of the original 

 one. Recently, too, there has been an in- 

 clination to adopt a hive containing ten 

 frames instead of the one which was long 

 standard and contained only eight frames. 

 Some beekeepers have maintained for 

 years that the ten frame hive tended to 

 reduce swarming simply because it af- 

 forded the bees more room in which to 

 work. 



By weekly examination we can detect 

 queen cells which are being built and re- 

 move them. If this is done during the 



