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Swarm Attachments 



"for securing swarms, when they issue, were devised by me 

 in the year 1888, and for some years past similar con- 

 trivances have been mentioned both in English and 

 foreign journals, though complete satisfaction seems 

 seldom to have been attained by their use. 



I still adhere to my non-swarming plan, or that which 

 helps to restrain bees from the desire to swarm, as being 

 by far the more simple and effectual, but as there are 

 many who for various reasons are unable to control 

 swarming, I illustrate the earliest design in Swarm 

 •Catchers (Fig. 39), which requires little attention when 

 once in position. 



It is simply the arrangement of my usual swarm prevent- 

 ing chamber under the brood nest, with a floor between 

 having a central opening covered with excluder zinc. The 

 whole front of the lower chamber is covered with excluder 

 -zinc, set out i^in., and reaching up to and covering the 

 front of a porch which comes in front of the main entrance. 



The alighting board has here several inverted cones so 

 inserted that the queen failing to make her way out with 

 the swarm finds a passage into the lower chamber from 

 which she cannot return, and where the bulk of the swarm, 

 after vainly seeking her abroad, re-assemble and go on to 

 work. If allowed to continue there they work in connec- 

 tion with the original force ; but, in this case, all surplus 

 ■queen cells must be cut out, and the zinc removed from 

 the upper entrance that the young queen remaining may 

 leave for her natural purposes. 



THE CONTROL OF SWARHINQ 



By Division, and Re-uniting witli Young Queens. 



Except in the few districts where the season is pro- 

 tracted, increase is obtained at the expense of honey 



