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can it be kept in an 8-frame hive ? 
it be? 
What kind of a cross would 
A. There is no such race as Adels. The word “Adel” is a Ger- 
man word which Germans spell “Edcl,” and the word means noble 
or excellent. So anyone may call his bees Adels, whether they 
are black or yellow; only, of course, it will be a misnomer if ap- 
plied to poor bees. If I understand it correctly, Adels were a 
strain of Italians first, so named by Henry Alley. 
Afterswarms.— Q. My bees swarmed May 31. I put on a suoer 
that noon, and eleven days later they put off another swarm 
i’n the II 16 T atte a *T th th6 T ? Thcy have not started to build 
the‘ bottoni. r tfCt & reTsonT Sti '‘ bringin * “ 
. It is the usual thing for bees to send out the second swarm 
about eight days after the prime swarm, and it may be as much 
as sixteen days later. They may also send out a third, fourth 
swarm, or more, and even if they send out only one swarm they 
are not likely soon to do anything in the super, if at all. 
Q. Last spring I bought three colonies of bees from one of the 
neighbors and they all have crooked combs in the brood-chamber 
He did not use starters and they are so crooked that I cannot 
take them out of the frames. These same colonies have each 
swarmed three times. The first swarms were large. 1 hived 
them in new 10-frame hives. The next three swarms were smaller 
I also hived them in 10-frame hives, and the last three were 
small. As I did not want any more bees, I killed the queens in 
the last three swarms and put them back in the parent hives, 
they did not swarm any more. As I don’t want any more swarms 
how can I prevent them from swarming? 
A. One way of preventing too much increase is to do as you 
did in one case, that is to return the swarm as often as one is- 
sues. But that may be more trouble than you like. Here’s an 
easy way to prevent afterswarming : When the prime swarm is 
hived, set it on the stand of the old colony, setting the old hive 
close beside it, facing the same way. A week later move the old 
hive to a new stand 10 feet or more away. That’s all; the bees 
will do the rest. For when the hive is moved to a new stand the 
bees will go to the fields just the same as if they had not been 
moved, but when they return, instead of going to their own hive 
they will return to the old stand and join the swarm. That will 
so weaken the mother colony that all thoughts of swarming will 
be given up, especially as no honey will be brought in for a day 
or two after the change of place. If you want to prevent all 
