. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 167 PREVENTION OK SWARMING. How all of the Bees may be Kepi at Work in one Hive, and Swarming be Avoided. .VRTHl-R C. _^HE perusal of IMr. R. L. Taylor's re- ^t^ marks on page 115 of the April Re- view suggests to uie that perhaps both he and other readers of the Review may be interested in an account of the methods I have practiced for many years for avoid- ing the trouble and loss incident to swarming. At the approach of the swarming peri- od the colonies are watched for any- sign of such tendencies, and as soo
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 167 PREVENTION OK SWARMING. How all of the Bees may be Kepi at Work in one Hive, and Swarming be Avoided. .VRTHl-R C. _^HE perusal of IMr. R. L. Taylor's re- ^t^ marks on page 115 of the April Re- view suggests to uie that perhaps both he and other readers of the Review may be interested in an account of the methods I have practiced for many years for avoid- ing the trouble and loss incident to swarming. At the approach of the swarming peri- od the colonies are watched for any- sign of such tendencies, and as soon as any colony shows the least sign of a change it is moved back from its stand and treated as follows: A hive containing four or more Langstroth frames, one with a dry coml) and the rest with starters, is put upon the old stand. Then the surplus chamber and honey-board (I use an ex- cluder, wood-zinc, honey-board) are tak- en, bees and all, from the old hive, and placed on the new. Then the queen is found, and, together with the bees on the comb on which she is found, made to run into the entrance of the new hive. Next, the old colony is placed on top of the surplus chamber, but, separated there- from by an escape-board, the escape be- ing so protected by excluder zinc as to prevent drones from getting down into the suqilus chamber. In the of two to three weeks, more or less, as may be convenient, or expedient, these upper chambers are removed and tiered up, three or more high, on a stand, until the remaining brood has all hatched. The comparatively few bees in these colonies are, later, either shaken into such places as need reinforcements, or are distributed with the combs when they are used about the apiary. The watching for indications of swarm- ing is superficial; consisting of entrance examinations and a glance now and then at the surplus chamber. I always take the benefit of any doubt and make a cliange early rather than too late. The only real "b
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