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day, the two hives should stand side by side. Practically, the two 

 hives are on one stand. True, the bees of each hive recognize and 

 enter their own home, but, remove one hive, and all of the flying 

 bees would enter the remaining- hive. Usually the second swarm 

 comes out on the eighth day after the issuing of the first. Now, if 

 the apiarist will, on the seventh day, about noon, when most of the 

 bees are a-field, carry the old hive to a new location, all of the bees 

 that have flown from the old hive since the issuing of the swarm, 

 that have marked the old location as their home, will return and join 

 the newly hived swarm. This booms the colony where the sections 

 are, and so reduces the old colony, just as the young queens are 

 hatching, that any farther swarming is abandoned. The old colony 

 just about builds up into a first-class colony for wintering. If there 

 is a fall honey flow, such a colony may store some surplus then. 

 This method of preventing after-swarming, called the Heddon 

 method, is not iiifaUihle. If a colony swarms before the first queen 

 cell is sealed, the first young queen may not hatch until the old col- 

 ony has been upon the new stand long enough for a sufficient num- 

 ber of bees to hatch to form a swarm; but, as a rule, this plan is a 

 success. If an after-swarm does come out, I open the hive, while 

 the swarm is clustering, cut out all of the queen cells, return the 

 swarm, and that is the end of the swarming. If the bee-keeper de- 

 sires no increase, he can pursue the plan just given until it is time to 

 remove the old hive to a new location, when it may be shifted to the 

 opposite side of the new hive, with its entrance turned to one side, 

 then gradually worked back to the side of the new hive, as has been 

 already explained, then, at the end of the week, shifted back to the 

 other side, where it may stand another week, when all of the bees 

 may be shaken out, and the hive and combs removed. What little 

 honey remains in the combs may be extracted, or, if some of them 

 are well-filled with honey, they may be saved to give any colony that 

 is lacking in stores at the approach of winter. 



There seems to be no good plan of allowing bees to swarm, and 

 then preventing increase by uniting, without having an extra set of 

 combs built for each swarm that issues, and the same may be said 

 when shook-swarming is practiced, but I believe such combs 

 are produced at a profit. 



There is still another plan of preventing increase, besides that 

 of merging the old colony into the new; it is that of contracting the 

 brood nest of the newly hived swarm to such an extent that the end 

 of the season will find it too much reduced in numbers tor success- 

 ful wintering, when it may be united with the parent colony. 



