FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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FORCED SWARMING. 



This plan has come into great prominence lately un- 

 der the name of forced, shaken, or brushed swarms. 

 Gravenhorst, the great German authority, practiced and 

 advocated it more than a quarter of a century ago. L. 

 Stachelhausen was earnest in his advocacy of the plan in 

 this country, and E. R. Root, editor of Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture, took it up with great enthusiasm. Probably a 

 good many had done more or less at it independently, for 

 it would naturally suggest itself that taking away all the 

 brood would leave a colony in much the same condition 

 as if they had swarmed ; and in actual practice most of 

 those who have tried the plan have found bees no more 

 inclined to swarm after it than after natural swarming. 



Fig. 56,— Queen-Excluder. 



FORCED VERSUS NATURAL SWARMING. 



Many have found the plan a material advance over 

 natural swarming. One very great advantage is suf- 



