. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE W T FALCONER MANFG CO VOL. IV. JUNE, 1894. ISO. 6. Preventing Increase or Nat- ural Swarminq. BY til \s. a. Til IKS. While it has, for a few years past not been much trouble to me to pre- vent increase, yet it seems to be quite a problem to many. Why, friends! it is no trouble in the world to prevent swarming. The surest way I know of, and it will work every time, is to keep your colonies weak; try it and see, but after all, you will surely find it more profitable to keep your colo- nies strong, and have natural swarm- ing
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE W T FALCONER MANFG CO VOL. IV. JUNE, 1894. ISO. 6. Preventing Increase or Nat- ural Swarminq. BY til \s. a. Til IKS. While it has, for a few years past not been much trouble to me to pre- vent increase, yet it seems to be quite a problem to many. Why, friends! it is no trouble in the world to prevent swarming. The surest way I know of, and it will work every time, is to keep your colonies weak; try it and see, but after all, you will surely find it more profitable to keep your colo- nies strong, and have natural swarm- ing. In all my experience which is not large, yet covers a period of some 12 to lo years, 1 have found that bees do better and give better returns if allowed to swarm naturally, not to swarm themselves to death, but I like each colony to -warm once, no more amino less. "After Swarming " is what play- havoc with the homy crop. Many bee-keeper- with experience ad- vise keeping young queens in your colonies to keep down swarming, which to a great extent agrees with my ex- perience, and not only that, a hive containing a young queen will breed up earlier, remain stronger, and ad- mit nearly twice the amount of bees in one hive, without a desire of swarming, than will a colony with an old three year old queen and the strength of the colony is what makes things count when your object is a honey crop, but if you make the rear- ing of bees and queens the object, it is another matter. 1 remember years ago when honey was my object, of several methods I tried, to prevent swarming, one method although a good deal of work was connected with it, 1 will give for what it is worth, and if any one reading this is very desirous to prevent swarming, I wish they would try it, and report through the Bee- Keeper. This method is very simple and may not amount to much, but with me it did smely work. The method was about as : When you notice a colony desirous of swarm- ing, just exchange
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