44 SUCCESSFUL BEE-KEEPING. 
til the hive C is nearly filled with combs. We now turn 
the hive one-fourth, and swarming is done, having from 
one good swarm thrown off three new ones by the time 
natural swarming has commenced ! 
There are other methods cf swarming the bees by re- 
volving the hive, which will suggest themselves to the 
apiarist, and by which he may be able to multiply them 
to any extent. Let no one misunderstand, however, and 
expect from fifty to one hundred pounds of surplus honey 
from each of them ; for it is anextraordinary year indeed 
for honey, that will afford a supply sufficient for winter- 
ing, where three swarms are taken from one. Bees must 
have stores to live on through the winter, like everything 
else in our climate, and it should be remembered that they 
are first entitled to their stores, and we should be content 
with the surplus for our care and attention. 
Sometimes the combs become so filled with bee-bread 
and honey, that there is not sufficient room for breeding 
faster than the bees perish,—hence the hive proves un- 
profitable. An exchange of combs, giving empty for full 
ones, will rapidly augment their numbers. Every good 
piece of worker comb should be saved for this purpose— 
they can be readily attached to the top of the frame, by a 
little melted bees wax applied with a feather, or the edge 
of the comb may be dipped in a little melted bees wax, and 
then placed quickly on the frame. If plenty of such 
empty worker combs be furnished them early in the season, 
at a time when comb building is conducted the most 
slowly, they will be immediately filled with eges, insur- 
ing the multiplication of the bees with the greatest ra- 
pidity ; so that when the honey harvest comes, a supply 
of laborers will be on hand to collect it. Those who 
know how rapidly bees breed under favorable circumstan-: 
