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good property which is all about him, it will mean something 

 to him to be able to control this everlasting swarming and 

 make his swarms in ten seconds instead of an hour, as 

 formerly, and then, too, that they will be so much better 

 and will be made when he wants to make them, or not at all 

 if he so determines. It is little wonder that we should become 

 enthusiastic. 



You will notice that the hive body just in front of the 

 boy with the smoker in his hand, was on the other hive body 

 that has the honey cases on now, and both of these hive 

 bodies are just alike, and are regular Langstroth sized hives, 

 and so are interchangeable, and make up one hive as we 

 used it for a brood nest, and now each part is to have another 

 like body placed on each and be filled up to go through the 

 winter again. 



The gentleman in the center, holding his watch to take 

 the time required to make a new swarm by this method, is 

 Senator William Alden Smith. He found that the time 

 required was ten seconds, quite a shortening from the old 

 way of one hour. 



We formerly advocated separating these hives at the 

 beginning of the honey flow like this outfit was, but we now 

 think it is better to wait and not divide till at the time of 

 taking off the white honey, for if you are careful, you have 

 all fall to build them up, and they should be all right and we 

 think we get really better honey and more of it by keeping 

 all the bees together during the honey gathering. But it 

 is may intention to try some colonies both ways this year 

 again to see if I can be more sure which is the best way. 

 We sometimes grow impatient and think more ought to 

 adopt this easier and better method of bee keeping, but we 

 have to be patient till others see it as we do. But time will 

 bring it about. When young Westinghouse presented the 

 air brake to the elder William Vanderbilt, he asked him if 

 he meant to say he could stop a passenger train with wind, 

 and Westinghouse replied, "Yes," and Vanderbilt said he 

 had no time to waste on fools. 



