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them may be united to such colony, and the combined 

 forces fed up for winter, if more stores be needed. 



" By the above, though with more labour, all the advan- 

 tages of non-swarming are obtained, and neither stock 

 hive (whatever distance apart) is moved from its own 



stand." 



Modifications of this riethod 



of doubling swarms and uniting the parent stocks can be 

 secured by using the whole of the flying bees of two 

 stocks near together for making the new swarm, and then 

 arranging the stock combs as another colony, as before. 

 The other alternative is that of doubling the stocks as 

 they are with the whole of the combs, bees, and brood, 

 not forgetting the great point of supplying a young 

 queen at the time. 



Now is it not strange that prominent bee-men, year 

 after year, are still straining after some method of con- 

 trolling swarming. My pamphlet, from which the above 

 is taken, was sold largely in this country and America, 

 and prior to its issue no mention of a non-swarming hive 

 or system had appeared in bee-literature of the period. 

 Only quite recently our American friends have been 

 exercising their minds over artificial swarms which they 

 propose to call " shook " swarms, because they shake off 

 part of the bees from the combs of a stock to form a 

 swarm to be hived upon starters ; thus in attempting to 

 control swarming they make 



One Strong Stock into Two Weak Ones, 



a process which no advanced bee-master should tolerate. 



Bees can be so easily united during a honey-flow that 

 it seems hardly credible any other plan of swarming can 

 supersede that given in my work of 1886, where ordinary 

 hives are used though even that is not equal to the more 

 simple management of my Conqueror non-swarming hive. 



