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filled themselves with honey. If it is desirable to have inci-ease, the 

 old hive can be given a new location and a laying queen, or a ripe 

 queen cell. If no increase is desired, the old hive can be set by the 

 side of the new one, with its entrance turned slightly to one side; 

 then, at the next visit, it may be shifted to the other side of the new 

 hive, when the flying bees will enter the new hive. A week later it 

 may be placed back upon the other side, and, at the next visit, three 

 weeks from the swarming, the few remaining bees may be shaken 

 out of the old hive. The shifting of the old hive, from side to side 

 of the new hive, may be omitted, the old hive being left standing by 

 the side of the new one until the three weeks have elapsed, when all 

 of the bees may be shaken in with the new colony. The advantage 

 of the former plan is that some of the hatching bees are sooner 

 thrown into the hew hive, where, their work will be to the greater 

 advantage of the owner. 



To avoid all danger from after-swarming it is desirable to shake 

 the combs quite clear of bees when making a "shook-swarm," and 

 this sometimes results in chilled or starved brood. There is a way, 

 however, to avoid this difficulty. Set the new swarm a little to one 

 side of the old stand. The flying bees return to the old stand 

 and care for the brood At night the hive containing the brood, and 

 the flying bees that have returned and entered it, is picked up and 

 carried to a new stand, and the "shook-swarm" placed upon the old 

 stand. Of course, the old bees that are carried to the new stand 

 gradually come back to the old stand, and join the "shook-swarm," 

 but it is one or two days before they all get back, and, in the mean- 

 time, young bees are hatching out, and, by the time the old bees 

 have all returned, there are sufficient young bees hatched to protect 

 and feed the brood. 



When natural swarming is allowed to the extent of first swarms, 

 it is an easy matter to prevent the issuing of after-swarms in a 

 home-apiary where there can be daily attention. The plan is very 

 similar to the one just mentioned for preventing increase when 

 practicing shook-swarming. When the season for surplus honey 

 closes with clover or basswood, it is better not to try to secure sur- 

 plus from both the parent colony and the swarm. Hive the swarm 

 upon the old stand, transferring the supers from the old to the new 

 hive. If the brood chamber of the new hive is not too large, work 

 will be at once resumed in the sections. Place the old hive by the 

 side of the new one, with its entrance turned to one side. That is, 

 have the rear ends of the hives nearly in contract, but their entrances 

 perhaps two feet apart. Each day turn the entrance of the old hive 

 a few inches towards that of the new hive. At the end of the sixth 



