178 FIFTY YEAES AMONG THE BEES 



have in a hive the more storing we shall have even if a good 

 many of the bees be quite young. 



Without, perhaps, giving any satisfactory reason for it, 

 I am also quite of the opinion that better work is generally 

 done when bees are allowed to go right along rearing brood 

 at their own sweet will; for toward the close of the harvest 

 they, of their own accord, curtail work in that direction. 





Fig. 57 — Folding Sections. 



NON-SWARMING PREFERRED TO FORCED. 



While I yield to no one in my appreciation of the advan- 

 tages of forced swarming over natural swarming, I believe 

 that the advantages of no swarming whatever over forced 

 swarming are as gTeat as the advantages of forced over na- 

 ural swarming. 



So you will hardly blame me if instead of resting content 

 with forced swarming I continue to pursue that will-o'-the- 

 wisp — in the opinion of many — non-swarming. 



KEEPING COLONIES QUEENLBSS. 



The next season after practicing the removal of (wo 

 frames of brood, I settled upon a plan which I f^lt pretty sur? 



