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A Beginner’s Experience with Bee¬ 
keeping 
{Continued from page 13) 
hiving- a swarm when it had formed. 
I found from reading that swarming is 
a perfectly natural process with the bees 
and is their method of increase, and that 
should one emerge, all that I could do was 
to wait until they had settled on some near- ■ 
by bush or branch of a tree. This they 
were certain to do. I found that I was ab¬ 
solutely powerless to cause them to settle, 
even though I resorted to that antiquated 
practice that still prevails among ignorant 
people of rushing out at the time of swarm¬ 
ing, ringing bells and pounding tin pans 
with the idea that it makes the swarm set¬ 
tle. As a matter of fact, it has absolutely 
nothing to do with it, as the settling of the 
swarm at time of pan beating was merely 
a coincidence. 
Though I did not know them, I after¬ 
ward learned that swarming can largely be 
controlled by increasing the air supply of 
the crowded hive by elevating- it above its . 
bottom board an inch or so. Another plan 
is to place a shade board over the hive. 
This is made of three or four pieces of 
old boards about 3 feet long each, nailed 
side by side on cleats about 2 inches wide 
and set on top of the hive lid for shade. 
My bees swarmed out the 25th of June. 
I never saw so many bees in all mv life, 
they just boiled out of the hive, atid in a 
few minutes there were clouds of them, 
circling around above the hive, and their 
hum could be heard at a great distance. 
No bells were rung, no pans banged, 
and in a few minutes the bees began ro 
cluster on a nearby branch of a young 
peach tree, a mere handful of bees, but as 
others joined the cluster it grew in size at 
an amazing rate, and when they had all 
settled it was a living, squirming mass that 
would have filled a bushel measure. 
For several days the new hive had stood 
in its place near the parent hive all ready 
for this emergency. I was fully protected 
with veil and gloves, but without the 
smoker, as no smoke is required in hand¬ 
ling swarms. For some unknown reason 
swarming bees seldom sting. With some 
trepidation I cut off the frail branch to 
which the swarm was attached, and car¬ 
ried it. bees and all, to the new hive and 
gently laid it at the entrance. It was re¬ 
markable, for without more ado the bees 
demnrelv marched into their new home 
like so manv platoons of troops. 
This new hive that came with the out¬ 
fit dififered only from the one that had the 
bees, in that instead of having the frames 
filled with combs, they were filled with full 
sheets of foundation wax (thin sheets that 
have been run through a press and stamped 
into rudimentary cells). Each sheet was 
securely wired in to form a septum which 
the bees draw out into full combs. 
The frames of the original colony were 
similarly wired before the parent colony 
was run into it by the dealer the season 
before, and when once these brood frames 
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