They aie ranged to the number of 9, H, or 13, in a strong box, 

 and each is both moveable and interchangeable with those of any- 



other hive. Swarming may be checked in any particular stock 

 by cutting out the Queen Cells. The great production of drones 



can be regulated by limiting the amount of drone cell in any 

 hive, and altogether prevented by removing it all from a stock 

 hive, about the purity of whose strain there is the least doubt ; 

 whilst again, it may be encouraged in a pure blooded stock hive, 

 by inserting at the proper time an additional bar containing drone 



comb. Any man handy with tools may make them for himself at 

 the cost of the materials, and they will last a lifetime. I can supply 



