170 NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL INCREASE. 
ple space afforded the queen to deposit eggs, the impulse 
to swarm will usually be held in check. Colonies with 
young queens are not so apt to endeavor to swarm. For 
ten years past I have extracted honey largely, taking it 
by the ton each season (excepting 1869), and I have never 
had a stock attempt to swarm which was extracted reg- 
ularly each week. This indicates some of the conditions 
necessary to control the tendency to swarm. But where 
hives are boxed, the problem is a more perplexing one. 
DEPRIVING OF A QUEEN. 
There is a practice advocated which is based upon the 
fixed principle that a swarm will not issue, and found a 
new colony, without a queen. Consequently, if a hive is 
made queenless at the beginning of the swarming season, 
no swarm can issue until another queen is in some way 
supplied. If, on the ninth day after the queen is taken 
away, all queen-cells are removed, the brood will be so 
far advanced that other queens cannot be reared, and the 
colony will remain destitute until the apiarian supplies 
the deficiency. 
I have practised this method to quite an extent, but 
there are such evident disadvantages in it, that I cannot 
recommend its general adoption, at least, by the inexpe- 
rienced. Under suitable circumstances, there are benefits 
to be derived from it by the skilful apiarian, where sev- 
eral apiaries are located at a distance, and absolute con- 
trol of each swarm is important, without the necessity of 
constant supervision. Another point in its favor is, that 
swarms can be controlled with less labor. 
SUGGESTIONS, 
Were I to have an apiary under my immediate super- 
vision, and desire to obtain the best possible yield of 
honey, in sections like Central New York, I should al- 
