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becomes strong in bees, swarming will be retarded to quite an extent. Then 

 on the arrival of the honey harvest, if this extracting-super is taken off, and 

 ;i super of sections placed on the hive, the bees will the more readily enter 

 the sections from the fact that they have been used to working above the 

 brood-nest. I practiced this quite largely eight to twelve years ago, and 

 obtained much better results than I had done before. Ever since "Scientific 

 Queen-rearing" was given to the public (1889) I have been spending my 

 best efforts in trying to work out a perfect plan of non-swarming, either 

 with or without manipulation; and during the first six or seven years, just 

 as 1 would begin to think I had something of value a different season wsuld 

 come, the bees swarm, and spoil it all. I was about to give up in despair, 

 when one day it came to me, "Why not use this extracted-super plan com- 

 bined with "shook swarming f which was then first appearing in sight. 

 My mental reply was, "I do not want any plan that will not put the flrst- 

 gathered honey (more than is needed for brood-rearing) anywhere else 

 than in the sections."^ Then the thought came, "Is it not possible to have 

 the first honey, which others extract, stored in the upper story of a full- 

 sized hive, thereby retarding swarming still more, and then work in such 

 a way as to cause the bees to put it in sections later on?" With this, de- 

 spair turned to hope, and this hope has become a reality by the perfect 

 working of the plan as now given to the public ; and the result of the year 

 1905 (1141/2 lbs. of section honey on an average per colony), the poorest 

 of all late years for honey in this locality, has caused me to write the 

 matter up, so all who wish can use it.^ 



Having the 13 colonies "swarmed," and the six others on the road to 

 prosperity after a careful looking-over the whole to see that "all is well," 

 the scythe is again wrapped up, allowed a whole seat in the ambulance 

 (auto), the starting-crank turned, when I am soon experiencing a delight- 

 ful rest in the "noonday" sun (which had seemed pretty hot in my work in 

 the bee-yard), made so comfortable through the pleasant breeze caused by 

 the tireless running of the automobile. In this we have what was done at 



^ Those who do not have an extra set of combs can give a second story containing 

 frames filled with foundation just before the beginning of the honey flow or as soon as 

 the bees will begin to work on the foundation. This should hold back swarming until 

 after the honey flow begins, especially if a frame or two of brood are lifted into the 

 upper story to induce the bees to begin working on the foundation promptly. When 

 these frames of foundation are built out and the new combs are filled with thin honey 

 at the beginning of the honey flow, the bees may be shaken on these new combs of 

 unsealed honey and the combs of brood taken away, as described on page 20. The 

 bees will then quickly transfer the honey from these combs into the supers. 



2 For extracted-honey production the procedure should be the same, giving the 

 upper story of honey about a month previous to the beginning of the honey flow to 

 supply the "millions of honey at our house" (see pages 9-10); but the queen-excluder 

 sbOTild ordinarily be omitted, pernLitting the queen to enter .the second story. If old 

 dark brood-combs are used in the second story the queen usually moves up promptly, 

 neglecting the combs below. If the colony is strong enough, a third story should be 

 given so the queen need not be crowded by the storing of honey in the second story. 

 After the queen has been above nearly three weeks and before all the brood has 

 emerged in the lower hive-body, she should be put below and confined there by means 

 of the queen-excluder. The supers should then be put into place and the former sec- 

 ond story, which now contains most of the brood, should be placed on top of the 

 supers. This brings about conditions similar to those described by the author for 

 comb honey, except that the shaken swarm in the lower story is not compelled to move 

 a lot of honey into the supers to make room for the queen, and the emerging brood 

 being placed above the supers greatly strengthens the colony. As the brood emerges 

 from these combs above the supers they are filled with honey. It is sometimes neces- 

 sary to destroy the queen-cells on these combs of brood 10 days after they were raised 

 up on top of the supers. 



