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Fig. 113. — Manipulation 

 to reduce population of 

 parent colony — third 

 position. 



location (Figs. Ill and 4 12), so that all returning field bees 

 join the swarm. As the brood emerges, the young bees be- 

 come accustomed to the location of 

 their hive. In a couple of days the 

 parent colony is turned about half 

 way around toward its former posi- 

 tion (Fig. 113), and, after the bees 

 again become accustomed to the 

 change, it is moved to a position 

 parallel to that of the new colony 

 (Fig. 114). If within seven or eight 

 days of the issuing of the swarm, the 

 parent colony is removed to a new 

 location, the young bees in flying out join the swarm, 

 thereby considerably reducing the parent colony. 



When the parent colony is moved, part of the bees may be 

 brushed in front of the entrance of the 

 swarm, leaving some to care for the 

 brood but not enough to induce an after- 

 swarm. The parent colony may be 

 used for increase or the bees as they 

 emerge may still be added to the swarm 

 or to some other colony. Other methods 

 of using some young bees or sealed brood 

 to advantage will be found by the bee- 

 keeper. They may be used to build up 

 weak colonies or, if the honey-flow will 

 probably be long enough to warrant it, 

 two parent colonies may be placed side by side. By giving 

 one a queen and removing the queen cells from the other, 

 they may be united about two weeks after the swarm issues, 

 when most of the brood has emerged from the queenless 

 colony, and they are then ready for supers. 



What to use in the brood-chamber in hiving swarms. 



The use of full sheets of foundation in the brood-frames has 

 the marked advantage of resulting in straight combs of worker 



Fig. 114. — Manipula- 

 tion to reduce popu- 

 lation of parent 

 colony — fourth po- 

 sition. 



