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for swarming is tne method by which nature arranges 
this.” — E. S. Tupper. 
Numerous experiments prove that if bees are swarm- 
ed they produce more honey, in the aggregate, than if 
left as a non-swarming stock, the empty home and their 
necessities drive them, and they all wotk with a will 
under such circumstances, instead of hanging around 
the entrance of an over-populous non-swarming hive, 
or lingering in the spacious honey-boxes without work. 
Venders of non-swarming hives usually base their 
theory on the following calculation : “ Bees consume 
twenty pounds of honey in forming one pound of 
comb. The empty combs of a swarmed hive of the 
proper size, (2,000 cubic inches), weigh over two 
pounds ; thus over forty pounds of honey are consumed 
in making the empty combs to furnish a new hive. At 
least sixty pounds more will be used in storing the 
combs and raising the brood to populate it, and at 
least thirty pounds more to furnish it with winter stores. 
1 his gives one hundred and thirty pounds of honey 
spent on the new colony. If the bees have remained 
in the old hive, this one hundred and thirty pounds of 
honey might have been stored inboxes.” This calcu- 
lation, so far as the amount of honey consumed for 
furnishing a new hive is concerned, is all true enough, 
but the fact really is, that the bees will not put so much 
honey into the boxes as they will gather anti store in 
frames, or to stock a new hive. 
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