How to hold on to a strong hive without splitting it

[tjc1]

If you come out of winter with a healthy hive and want it to develop into a strong honey-producing hive in the coming year rather than split it, is there a way  do that and avoid swarming?

[gww]

tjc
I don't have experiance and so take it with a grain of salt anything I tell you. 
Double screen boards are interesting ways of maby getting what you want. 
http://www.kentbee.com/stw/bm~doc/demaree-method-of-swarm-control.pdf

http://www.killowen.com/swarmcontrol1.html

I think there is a honey making section on this one
http://www.mdasplitter.com/docs/NCarolina-2.pdf

Most relie on making a split and then bleeding bees back from the split to the main hive and then recombining after the swarm threat is over.
I did not read the first link but spell so bad that posting the link let me off the hook from having to spell the method.

There are lots of other ideals hand helpful things (like clipping the queen)  killing the queen during flow and many other ideals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETgWMMZr4So

recombine later.
Good luck
gww

[Michael Bush]

>If you come out of winter with a healthy hive and want it to develop into a strong honey-producing hive in the coming year rather than split it, is there a way  do that and avoid swarming?

http://bushfarms.com/beesswarmcontrol.htm

[tjc1]

Michael, GWW, many thanks!

Ted

[yes2matt]

If you come out of winter with a healthy hive and want it to develop into a strong honey-producing hive in the coming year rather than split it, is there a way  do that and avoid swarming?

This is from a Randy Oliver article. I think it's my "plan A" this year.

[Sniper338]

Requeen before they are thinking about swarming