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apart. Moreover, it is frequently an ad¬ 
vantage to use extracting combs in the 
brood-chamber. The self-spacing feature 
costs very little extra, does not interfere 
in any way with spacing the combs farther 
apart during the extracting season, and 
makes possible standard uniform equip¬ 
ment. In localities where propolis is very 
plentiful, the metal-spaced Hoffman frame 
is desirable, altho it requires a little more 
care in uncapping the metal-spaced frame 
Fig. 6. Hoffman frames, metal-spaced pattern. 
to avoid dulling the uncapping-knife. The 
regular Hoffman frame, then, should be 
usually used in the super, altho the metal¬ 
spaced type is always better in the brood- 
chamber where propolis is plentiful. 
THE CONTROL OF SWARMING. 
The extracted-honey producer does not 
have as much trouble preventing swarms 
as does the comb-honey man, since there 
is no objection to giving plenty of room 
as fast as the bees need it, and perhaps a 
little faster. In some localities bees swarm 
before and in others during the honey flow, 
and in a few localities they swarm after 
the flow is almost over; but in any case, 
swarming is a hindrance to the best results 
in honey, production. The bees should be 
working with concentrated energy in one 
hive. If divided into half a dozen diminu¬ 
tive swarms, they are generally of no use to 
themselves or to the beekeeper, so far as 
the production of honey is concerned. 
When artificial swarms are made to an¬ 
ticipate the issuing of natural swarms in 
producing extracted honey, it is not neces¬ 
sary to set the parent hive at one side, as 
in comb-honey production (see Comb 
Honey, to Produce) ; but the parent col¬ 
ony and the swarm may both be left in the 
same hive, the swarm being in the new 
brood-chamber and the parent hive (having 
all queen-cells destroyed) being placed 
above the supers. A queen-excluder used 
over the lower brood-chamber prevents the 
queen from going back to the combs of 
brood now above the supers. This plan is 
a variation of the Demaree plan in which 
the chamber containing the brood is placed 
directly above the queen-excluder, the su¬ 
pers being placed on top. See Demaree 
Plan under Swarming. 
Placing the brood above the supers in 
this way separates the old brood-chamber 
from the new one more completely, which 
probably reduces the chances of a swarm 
issuing if a young queen should emerge in 
the old brood-chamber. In fact, some bee¬ 
keepers who use this method do not find it 
necessary again to destroy the queen-cells 
that may be built in the old brood-chamber 
after it is put above the supers provided 
there are at least two full-depth extracting 
supers between the new brood-chamber at 
the bottom of the hive and the old brood- 
chamber now at the top of the hive. In 
addition to this, placing the supers directly 
above the new brood-chamber usually re¬ 
sults in the bees working in them better 
than when they are more remote. 
When artificial swarms are made in this 
way the new brood-chamber may be filled 
either with empty combs or frames con¬ 
taining full sheets of foundation, together 
with one empty comb. This plan for swarm- 
control is used by many successful pro¬ 
ducers of extracted honey, being especially 
