;80 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



KEEPING QUEENS CAGED. 



Success was reported by others with the plan of keeping- 

 queens caged in the hive during part oi' the whole of the har- 

 vest, aud although I tried it on a large scale there was no ease 

 of success witli me. 



FASTENING YOUNG QUEENS IN. 



The good old-fashioned way of managing after-swarms 

 \\as to i-eturn them as fast as they came out. This gave the 



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young c|ueens a chance to fight it out till only one was left, and 

 when only one was left there would be no more swarming. So 

 I planned to let the young- queens fight it out without the trou- 

 ble of returning swarms. T piut a queen-excluder between the 

 bottom-board and hi\'e, so that no queen could get out. As no 

 queen could get out, no swarm could leave. When the young 

 queens emerged they could settle their little differences to 

 suit themselves till only one queen was left. I would keej) 

 track of what was going on in the hi-s'es sufficiently to take 

 away the excluder after all but one (jueen had been put out 



