PREVENTION OF B WARMING. 
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SPACE NEAR KNTH.\N< E8. 
Arranging frames with starters or combs merely begun between the 
brood nest ami the flight hole of the hive while the bees are given stor- 
ing space above or back of the brood-nest tig*. 68 and 69] La a plan 
Fig. 
18.— The Simmins non-swarming system— single-story hive with supers: be. brood chamber; 
M, super: st. starters of foundation: c. entrance. (Redrawn from A Modern Bee-Farm. i 
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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 measure, 
though not invariably successful 
even when the distinctive fea- 
tures brought forward promi- 
nently by Mr. Simmins — empty 
space between the brood combs 
and entrance, together with the 
employment of drawn combs in 
the supers — are 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 
keep 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. 
Pig. &j.— The Siinnnns non-swarming system— 
double-story hive with supers; be, brood chamber; 
supers; tt, chamber w;th starters; e. entrance. 
(Redrawn from A Modern In e Farm.) 
