ITALIAN BEE KEEPING. 7 



show the great facility of makingf artifioial swarmB (aa explained 

 hereafter), thus saving muoh time and patience, which are required 

 in watching old-fashioned hives lest swarms depart unnoticed. 



By artifioial swarms the number of hives may be increased, as 

 long as the bees find food ; while by help of the honey-taking machine 

 vastly more honey can be taken day after day from different hives, 

 or say once a week from the same hive, than by taking the honey 

 once or twice in a season from each old-fashioned hive. 



I will now give the details of my experience. In August, when 

 in ItaJy bees still gather honey, I had already taken, during one 

 average season, from each of several stock hives, from 261b. to 331b. 

 of honey, and left each hive with eighteen out of twenty frames 

 with honeycombs full. I never fed them at all during the honey 

 season. This weight is not extraordinary. Don Giotto Ulivi told 

 mB that one exceptionally good season he took 30001b. of honey 

 from twenty-eight hives with frames. That is over 1001b. per 

 hive. 



