PREVENTION OF SWARMING. 103 
SPACE NEAR 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. 68 and 69) is a plan 
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Fic. 68.—The Simmins non-swarming system—single-story hive with supers; bc, brood chamber; 
sc, 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 é; 
an excellent preventive meas- N i 3 | 
ure, though not invariably 
successful even when the dis- 
tinctive feature brought for- 
ward prominently 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 El 
the hive well, and to keep 
queens not over two years old, 
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If to these precautions be st, chamber with starters; e, entrance. (Redrawn 
Paienmuat Or SUDSEIMNt Ne 10m. to stoders Bee: Farm.) 
the old queens young ones of the current season’s raising, before swarm- 
ing has begun, practical immunity from swarming is generally insured. 
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