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drawn combs or foundation and an excluder is inserted between 

 the two bodies. Thus she is supphed for a considerable time with 

 breeding room. If this be repeated at intervals the queen may be 

 supplied with empty combs and the danger of brood restriction 

 removed. 



In the greater number of instances, however, the excluder when 

 once placed is left for the remainder of the flow. An increasing 

 number of beekeepers use the excluder till most of the danger of 

 swarming is over, when it is removed and a super of sealed honey 

 placed next to the brood chamber to keep the queen from going 

 above. 



As stated above, the use of shallow extracting supers dis- 

 courages the queen from going above, especially if such combs 

 are spaced far apart, putting eight, or at most nine combs in a 

 ten frame super. Mr. Chambers of Arizona claims success in 

 putting but eight frames in a regular ten-frame full depth super 

 to keep the queen below. 



However, we must not lose sight of the fact that all such plans 

 as tend to restrict the laying of the queen are not as desirable as 

 those which give her sufBcient room, nor do they have as much 

 effect in the prevention of swarming. 



