How to Operate the Roller Entrance Bottom Board 

 During Swarming Time 



The inventor of this Bottom Board has thoroughly convinced 

 himself that there are certain swarms and strains of bees, that 

 nothing under the sun will stop them from swarming or rather 

 trying to swarm. I have found some when they get that idea in 

 their head of swarming that will go out when there are no cells, 

 nor any virgins in the hive, yes even with the virgin queen on 

 her mating flight they will follow her. 



Now here is the great advantage with this Bottom Board. 

 ^^ hen they do try to swarm there is no getting away to the 

 woods, or onto a limb of a tree for the bee-keeper to climb up 

 ladders and nearly sweat himself to death. All he has to do, if he 

 is in the bee yard at the time when they try to swarm is to hive 

 them on the return plan, i. e. when all the bees are out in the air, 

 remove the old hive and in place put the empty hive with frames 

 and foundation, or drawn comb, if you prefer, or several of the 

 frames out of the hive you moved back. Place old queen in it, 

 and let the bees come back and hive themselves, which they will 

 do in ID or 15 minutes. Or if you havn't time to find the queen, 

 place the supers from the hive the bees have swarmed out of with 

 the honey in them and let the bees all cluster in and around them 

 on the old stand, while the bees are coming back to the supers, 

 find the old queen, and take the frame she is on, cut ofif queen cells 

 if there are any on the frame with the queen, place frame and old 

 queen in sectional brood chambers with foundation in the re- 

 maining frames and place her back on the old stand under the 

 bees, and supers of honey, the remainder of the old frames of 

 brood and queen cells the bee-keeper can suit himself, make in- 

 crease, or strengthen other colonies that are weak or cut off the 

 queen cells and give back to the old queen. This is done easy 

 when bees are out of 3'our way. 



The strong point about the Schamu way is that the bees do not 

 get away and that he can work when he feels like it, and when 

 he has time. When using this Bottom Board you are not com- 

 pelled to keep wasting time looking over hives for queen cells, 

 for fear your bees are going to swarm. Just let them alone, when 

 one does try and you are there attend to them, if you are not 

 there, they will come back and wait until you can attend them. 

 Another great point in favor of the Roller Entrance Bottom 

 Board is, if the bee-keeper sees fit to make a shook swarm the 

 bees cannot abscond the way they frequently do with the old- 

 fashioned Bottom Boards. Absolutely no getting away. 



The printing of the 1914 Catalogue of the 20th Century inven- 

 tion was purposely held up until this item of swarming could be 



