2i6 A Modem Bee-Farm 



new honey, her hive is always crowded with brood, while 

 the main working colony has a constant renewal of young 

 workers, without the trouble of uniting and 'changing the 

 surplus receptacles. 



" The queen in the main hive has very little room 

 allowed her for breeding, while consequently there is 

 little inclination to swarm." 



Well, that is the basis of the Double Conqueror Manage- 

 ment, in controlling swarming ; but the plan being 

 modified is carried out as follows : 



The hive has two entrances both at the back and front. 

 Consequently when the two stocks are strong enough, one 

 is supered, while the other has its late entrance closed, 

 but at the same time its opposite back entrance is 

 opened. This throws all the actual workers into the one 

 supered hive, while the queen of the denuded stock fills 

 up rapidly with brood, having few gatherers to clog the 

 ■cells with honey. 



After some ten days the back entrance is closed, while 

 the back of the populous supered stock is then opened, 

 receiving a further addition of workers. The brooding 

 stock then of course has its original entrance again 

 opened, and so on, repeating the process as long as honey 

 flows. 



A single stock may be used in a similar manner, first 

 making up an early nucleus from the stock and placing 

 it in the other side, using the young queen when in full 

 work, for producing the surplus population for its parent 

 hive ; or the process may be reversed, using the nucleus 

 when ready as the supering hive. A swarm may also be 

 hived on one side for carrying out the same process of 

 helping a stock in the other ; while lastly two swarms may 

 be used for stocking the double Conqueror, and presently 

 helping each other upon the same plan. 



