PREVENTION OF SWARMING. 



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SPACE NEAIJ ENTRANCES. 



Arranging frames with starters or combs merely begun between the 

 brood nest and the flight hole of the hive while the bees are given stor- 

 ing space above or back of the brood-nest (figs. 08 and 09) is a plan 



Fig. 68.— The Simmins uon-swarming system — single-story hive with supers; be, brood chamber; 

 ■^c, super; St, starters of foundation: e. entrance (Redrawn from A Modern Bee-Farm.) 



strongly recommended by Mr. Samuel Simmins, of England, and which 

 has come to be known as "the Simmins non-swarming method,'' some 

 features of it and the combination into a well-defined method having 

 been original with him. It is 

 an excellent preventive meas- 

 ure, though not invariably 

 successful even when the dis- 

 tinctive feature brought for- 

 ward i)rominently by Mr. 

 Simmins — empty space be- 

 tween the brood combs and 

 entrance — is supplemented by 

 other measures already men- 

 tioned; but when, in addition 

 to the space between the 

 brood and the flight hole, the 

 precaution be taken to get 

 supers on in time, to ventilate 

 the hive well, and to kee]) 

 queens not over two years old, 

 swarming will be very limited. 

 If to these precautions be 

 added that of substituting for 

 the old queens young ones of the current season's raising, before swarm 

 ing has begun, practical immunity from swarming is generally insured, 



Fig. (39.— The Simmiu.s uouswarmiuj; system— double- 

 story hive with supers ; be. brood chamber : te. sujH^rs ; 

 St. chamber with starters; e, eutrance. (Redrawn 

 from A Modern r>ee-Farm.) 



