HIVE MANAGEMENT 103 



the bees during the harvest period. 

 Hives should be so managed that at the 

 beginning of the honey flow the bees have 

 every available space in the brood cham- 

 ber filled either with brood (sealed if 

 possible), or with honey. Then, having 

 no space to store the surplus, they readily 

 go to work in the supers. By adding ad- 

 ditional supers as needed they can always 

 be given plenty of room and will often 

 stay on the job steadily as long as the flow 

 lasts. 



If, during the honey flow, the colony 

 insists upon swarming, the scheme out- 

 lined above must be worked to induce the 

 bees to remain at work in the same set of 

 supers. Also the parent hive must be re- 

 placed with one containing, not empty 

 brood frames, but frames fitted with 

 sheets of foundation only. Perhaps 

 strips of foundation are better than fuU 

 sheets. The reason for this is that if we 

 provide storage space and brood rearing 

 space at such a time, the bees will give all 



