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and also to make the parent colony too weak to cast an afterswarm. 
The combs containing the best queencells should not be shaken be- 
cause of the danger of injuring the immature queens. If some combs 
having queencells are shaken the cells should be destroyed to prevent 
the emergence of any injured queens. If choice queencells from a 
breeding queen are available, all the cells on the combs from the 
parent colony should be destroyed and one of the choice cells should 
be given. 
When comb-honey is being produced the parent colony can not 
well be united with the swarm directly in this way, but it should be 
left beside the swarm six or seven days, for on the eighth day the 
parent colony would normally cast its first afterswarm. It should 
then be moved away and given a new location well separated from 
other colonies in another 
partoftheapiary. This 
should be done when the 
young bees that have 
learned to fly during 
the week are flying 
freely, preferably early 
in the afternoon, and 
the hive should be car- 
ried away and placed 
on its new stand so care- 
fully that the bees are 
not disturbed, in order 
that they will go to the 
fields without noting Fic. 6.—aAfter the swarm has entered the new hive the 
the change in their sur- hive of the parent colony is turned toward its 
3 . 2 former position. 
roundings. If this is 
done carefully, all of the field bees when returning from the field will 
return to their former location, where they must enter the other hive 
and unite with the swarm. This adds a large number of young 
workers to the swarm where they are of the greatest value at this 
time, and at the same time so reduces the number of bees in the 
parent colony that afterswarming is given up. 
The successful prevention of afterswarming by this method de- 
pends upon the completeness of the reduction of the population of 
the parent colony just before the time for the issuing of the first 
afterswarm. If anything should prevent this reduction at the right 
time, such as confinement of the bees to the hive for a day or two 
by bad weather at the time the parent hive is moved away, or the 
emergence of the young queens earlier or later than expected, colo- 
nies treated in this way may have enough bees when the first young 
queen emerges to send out an afterswarm. Under such conditions 
