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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
eking incomplete, and this, according to Mr. Simmins, 
accomplishes the object, for he says*: No colony in 
normal condition attempts to swar?n unless it has 
all its brood-combs completedd^ To this undoubtedly 
correct principle, which is practically invariable, I 
venture to add a second, w’hich does much to explain 
the first : That no colony in normal condition will 
swarm, if by so doing it must leave the old colony 
Fig. 76.— Arrangements to Prevent Swarming (Scale, iV). 
A, Straw Hive in Section— s?.-, si;, Skep ; e, e, Eke; j, j, Joint; en, Entrance ; /"b. 
Floor-board ; oc, Old Comb ; nr, New Comb ; >p. Space Unoccupied. 
B, Ordinary Frame Hive, arranged upon the Simmins System — g. Guide : vc. New 
Comb; sr, sr, Section Racks; c, c. Comb; hn. Brood-nest; others Letters as 
before. 
unable to defend its entrance. If a small swarm be 
put into a large hive, it invariably so stations itself that 
it can defend its hive-mouth in weather when other 
colonies can fly (see Fig. 5 and page 34). In the 
roof of Great Hadham Church, five or six colonies 
were located, and the arrangements made by these 
unfettered bees I thought peculiarly instructive. They 
had built between the rafters, and went In and out 
* Simmins’ Original Non-swarming System,” page 9. 
