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wherever desired, giving the colony its queen or some 

 other queen. 



Now there's nothing very compHcated about that, is 

 there ? 



ITALIANIZING WITH NATURAL SWARMING. 



Yet Still there are some who don't want to take even 

 that much trouble. A man says: "All I care to do with 

 the bees is to hive the swarms that come out, and to put 

 on the surplus boxes and take them off when filled. I 

 never take a frame out of a hive any more than if they 

 were all box-hives. But I have Italians in one hive, and 

 if I could I'd like to have more of that stock." 



For such a one I would advise after this manner: 

 Suppose we call your Italian colony A, the strongest of 

 the other colonies B, the next strongest C, the next D, 

 and so on. When A swarms, hive the swarm and set it 

 on the old stand, put A in place of B, and put B on a new 

 stand. All the field-bees of B will return to A, making A 

 quite strong again. In 8 or 10 da\'s a young queen will 

 be ready in A to go out with a swarm. Hive the swarm, 

 put it in place of A, put A in place of C, and put C in a 

 new place. The field-bees of C will again strengthen A, 

 and in a day or two another swarm will issue. Put the 

 swarm in place of A, put A in place of D, and put D in a 

 new place. Continue this as long as A continues to 

 swarm, and each one of your swarms will have for its 

 queen a daughter of your Italian queen. If you have only 

 five or six colonies, the whole lot may be thus Italianized. 



SUPER SPRINGS. 



Until the introduction of super springs, my supers 

 of sections were wedged together by crowding in behind 

 the follower a straight stick J4xj4 inch. I find, the super 

 springs a very great improvement. When the sections 

 are filled into the super, the corners which have been wet 

 are not yet dry, and no matter how tightly wedged, as 

 they dry out there will be a shrinkage of the contents of 



