66 Advanced Bcc Culture 



the hew hive, where their work will be to the greater advantage of the 

 owner. 



To avoid all danger from after-swarming, it is desirable to shake 

 the combs quite dear of bees when making a "shook swarm," and this 

 sometimes results in chilled or starved brood. There is a way, however, 

 to avoid this difificulty. Set the new swarm a little to one side of the 

 old stand. The flying bees return to the old stand and care for the 

 brood. At night the hive containing the brood, and the flying bees that 

 have returned and entered it, is picked up and carried to a new stand, 

 and the "shook swarm" placed upon the old stand. Of course, the old 

 bees that are carried to the new stand gradually come back to the old 

 stand, and join the "shook swarm," but it is one or two days before 

 they all get back, and, in the meantime, young bees are hatching out; 

 and by the time the old bees have all returned, there are sufficient young 

 bees hatched to protect and feed the brood. 



When natural swarming is allowed to the extent of first swarms, 

 it is an easy matter to prevent the issuing of after-swarms in a home- 

 apiary where there can be dail\' attention. The plan is very similar to 

 the one just mentioned for preventing increase when practicing shook 

 swarming. When the season for surplus honey closes with clover or 

 basswood, it is better not to try to secure surplus from both the parent 

 colony and the swarm. Hive the swarm upon the old stand, transferring 

 the supers from the old to the new hive. If the brood-chamber of the 

 new hive is not too large, work will be at once resumed in the sections. 

 Place the old hive by the side of the new one, with its entrance turned 

 to one side — that is, have the rear ends of the hives nearly in contact, 

 but their entrances perhaps two feet apart. Each day turn the entrance 

 of the old hive a few inches toward that of the new hive. At the end 

 of the sixth day the two hives should stand side by side. Practicalh', 

 the two hives are on one stand. True, the bees of each hive recognize 

 and enter their own home ; but, remove one hive and all of the flying 

 bees would enter the remaining hive. Usually the second swarm comes 

 out on the eighth day after the issuing of the first. iVow, if the apiarist 

 will, on the seventh day, about noon, \vhen most of the bees are a-field, 

 carry the old hive to a new location, all of the bees that have flown from 

 the old hive since the issuing of the swarm, that have marked the old 

 location as their home, will return and join the newl\ hived swarm. 

 This booms the colon}' where the sections are, and so reduces the old 

 colony, just as the young cjueens are hatching, that any farther swarm- 

 ing is abandoned. The old colony just about builds up into a first-class 

 colony for wintering. If there is a fall honey-flow, such a colony may 

 store some surplus then. This method of preventing after-swarming, 

 called the Heddon method, is not infaUihlc. If a colony swarms before 



