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rearing previous to the honey-flow. This should contain combs built on full 
sheets of comb-foundation or, if combs are not available, the comb-foundation 
may be used. In adding this hive-body, two of the central brood frames from 
the old hive are placed above and their place is filled with empty combs or 
comb-foundation. This gives ample room for the queen, and’ also for the 
storage of any honey which may be gathered previous to the main honey-flow. 
PREVENTING AFTER-SWARMS. 
If the beekeeper desires an increase in the number of colonies, one swarm 
may be allowed to issue from each old colony. If the new swarm is hived in 
the old location and the old hive is moved to a new place, good results will fol- 
low. In this event the supers, if any, should be moved from the old colony to 
the swarm. This procedure is not so good as the entire prevention of swarm- 
ing, but it will prevent after-swarms and will add to the new swarm the field 
bees that would otherwise remain with the parent colony. 
If the parent colony is placed right beside the swarm and is then removed 
to another location in a week, the swarm is still further reduced and after- 
swarms more surely prevented. This must be done on the eighth day after 
the first swarm if after-swarms are not desired. 
BULK COMB-HONEY PRODUCTION. 
In localities where the market will accept bulk comb-honey at a profitable 
price, this type of honey has certain advantages. The bees work more readily 
in frames than in comb-honey sections. The crowding of the bees, with its 
attendant troubles from swarming and loafing, is not so essential for good 
work in the supers. When bulk comb-honey is packed in containers and cov- 
ered with liquid honey it is not subject to damage by the waxmoth larvae. 
As soon as the honey-flow starts, the second story for brood-rearing (if 
one has been added) should be removed, and the queen, all the bees, and 
preferably all sealed brood, should be placed in the lower story. Should there 
be less than ten frames of sealed brood, enough unsealed brood should be used 
to fill the hive. If there are less than ten frames of brood in all, frames of 
honey may be used to fill the lower story, these being placed on each side of 
the brood. Each hive at the beginning of the honey-flow should be full of 
brood or, lacking that, full of brood and honey so that there shall be no place 
for incoming honey in the brood-chamber, thus compelling the bees to store it 
in the supers. Should there be more frames of brood or honey than those 
necessary to completely fill each hive, additional ones may be placed on a weak 
colony. These may be made several stories high without harm, and their use 
will be explained later (p. 7). After putting on the queen-excluder, the 
supers, containing shallow frames with full sheets of thin foundation, are now 
added as explained under that heading (p. 6). 
Another plan which is successfully used does not call for a second full- 
depth brood-chamber, but a shallow super is used to provide extra breeding 
space for the queen. When the brood occupies five full combs, the super with 
shallow frames is added above. This should contain full sheets of foundation 
if new or, after a start has been made, ready built combs. At the beginning 
of the honey-flow, the shallow supers for surplus honey are added as already 
explained, except that the first super (for breeding) is always kept on top, 
and when filled with honey after the emergence of the brood, the honey is 
extracted and is used to fill the spaces around the pieces of comb in the 
buckets. This super is the first to be added again the following season. With 
this plan a queen-excluder is usually not needed. 
Unless the honey-flow is of long duration, no honey need be removed from 
the hive until nectar ceases to come in. The use of the bee-escape for remov- 
ing honey is advised since, if the honey is of mild flavor, smoking out the bees 
