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to receive the eggs as the queen resumes egg-laying, so that most 
of the incoming nectar must be taken to the supers. As the remain- 
ing brood emerges the vacated cells are usually prepared for eggs 
until toward the close of the honey-flow. 
The furniture used in the new brood-chamber also has an influence 
upon the tendency to swarm again the same season. When the bees 
build a set of new combs from narrow strips of foundation or full 
sheets of foundation they rarely swarm again, but when swarms 
are hived on combs of emerging brood, empty combs, or combs of 
honey, sometimes many of them may attempt to swarm again the 
same season if the honey-flow is of considerable duration. As to 
the effect upon this tendency, the various combinations of furniture 
for the new brood-chamber usually stand in the following order, 
increasing through the series: (1) Narrow strips of foundation, (2) 
full sheets of foundation, (3) full sheets of foundation together 
with one or more empty combs, (4) empty combs, (5) combs of 
honey, and (6) combs of emerging brood. 
While narrow strips of foundation stand first, both as to forcing 
immediate work in the supers and as to reducing the tendency to 
swarm again the same season, their use is open to the serious objec- 
tion that so much drone-comb is usually built that many of the combs 
built in this way are not suitable for subsequent use in the brood- . 
chamber. Some comb-honey producers, however, use them, then at 
the close of the honey-flow unite the parent colony and the swarm, 
placing the brood-chamber of the parent colony above that of the 
swarm; then in the fall the lower brood-chamber may be removed 
and the now empty combs cut out to be rendered into wax. Many 
comb-honey producers prefer to use full sheets of foundation in all 
the frames or in all but one of the frames of the new brood- chamber 
for hiving swarms. 
When euher narrow strips of foundation or full sheets of founda- 
tion are used in the new brood-chamber, a queen excluder should be 
used when the supers are transferred from the parent colony to the - 
swarm at the time of hiving, and precautions should be taken also 
against swarming out (p. 31). 
CONTRACTION OF THE BROOD-CHAMBER. 
Ff the new brood-chamber is contracted so that little work is re- 
quired to fill it and so that most of the bees of the colony are crowded 
into the supers, the work in the supers should continue without inter- 
ruption after a swarm has been hived. It was formerly a common 
practice to reduce the new brood-chamber to five or six Langstroth 
frames by inserting division boards at the sides of the hive to fill out 
the remaining space. This should not be done until two or three 
days after the swarm has been hived, for contracting the brood- 
