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can go on building below. Nevertheless, these frames with 

 starters must never be allowed to have finished combs, and should 

 any be nearing completion they are to be cut out to be used in 

 the sections, first extracting the honey if any, and exposing for 

 two or three days those which may contain eggs, that they may 

 be removed by the bees when such combs are returned. 

 Let it be borne in mind, however, that 



The True Principle of Management 



consists in so manipulating the supers that none of the frames with 

 starters have finished combs all the season. 



The space below and in front of the brood nest gives ample 

 ventilation, keeping the hive cool ; and the combs never being 

 completed the desire for swarming does not exist. 



As will be seen the system is particularly applicable to the 

 production of comb-honey, and without doubt is the only pro- 

 cess that will prevent the issue of swarms while producing that 

 article. At the same time it makes a greater certainty of preven- 

 tion while working for extracted honey, though generally in getting 

 the latter article stored no swarming would occur, as there is no 

 object in having the combs well finished, and unlimited room can 

 be given. 



This is the first time the long-vexed question of prevention has 

 been reduced to systematic management ; but, as usual with any- 

 thing new, there are not wanting those who claim that there is 

 nothing original in it. The editor of the British Bee Journal 

 endeavoured to prove that it had been in use many years since, 

 and that the Stewarton Hive was worked upon the same prin- 

 ciple ; and while attempting to show how to produce comb-honey 

 without swarming, I find he could not tell how to work entirely 

 for that article with any given colony ; but only that a hmited 

 quantity could be obtained while at the same time using many 

 combs under the sections as and for extracted honey — a most 

 unsatisfactory process, by which not one in a hundred bee-keepers 

 would obtain a dozen finished sections, unless my plan of filling 

 the same with worked-out comb is adopted. 



