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Hives Not Always Full Before Swarming

Categories: HIVES.
Bee Keeping: Mysteries Of Bee-keeping Explained

I know Weeks, Colton, Miner and others, tell us the hive _must be full_

before we need expect a swarm; but experience is against them. Bees do

sometimes cast a swarm before filling the hive. From close observation,

I find when a hive is very large, say 4,000 cubic inches, and is filled

with comb, the first season, that such seldom swarm except in very good

years.



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