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Making my first swarm by setting the two bodies apart as shown. 



CHAPTER XI 



Making My First Swarm in Public By Division By the 

 Pearce Method. 



The above cut shows us making my first public demon- 

 stration of how easy I make my swarms by the Pearce 

 Method, by dividing, i. e., by just setting the two hive bodies 

 apart. 



I naturally feel proud of this scene, as a boy would 

 getting on his first pair of trousers. For I felt sure I had 

 found out a good thing for myself as well as my fellow bee 

 keepers in being thus able to control swarming and make 

 our swarms by division so easily and quickly and so very 

 much better this way. I have expressed it in this way, that 

 it is as much better than the old way of swarming as the 

 Westinghouse is better than the old brake to stop a passen- 

 ger train. And now after all these years of trial, I feel sure 

 there is very much more in it than I at first supposed. For 

 I did not then have the conception that I now have, of the 

 vastness of our great honey resources, which is estimated 

 to be even greater than all of our agricultural products and 

 hve stock, which is placed at about ten billions of dollars. 

 Therefore you will readily see that when man becomes a little 

 more intelhgent and begins to go after this vast amount of 



