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first destroying all queencells if any have been started. Ten days 
later again destroy all queencells that are built on the combs of 
brood now above the supers. 
To accomplish the same thing without shaking the bees from the 
combs, find the queen and place her, together with a comb of brood 
and adhering bees, in an extra hive body which is filled with frames 
of foundation or empty combs as described above. Lift the original 
brood-chamber from the bottom-board and put the extra hive body 
now containing the queen in its place. Put the queen-excluder and 
the supers in place and finally place the original brood-chamber 
above the supers, first destroying all queencells, if any have been 
built. Ten days later destroy all queencells in the original brood- 
chamber. When a comb of brood is placed in the new brood-chamber 
in this way, care must be taken that it does not contain any queen- 
cells, and if preparation for swarming is general in the apiary it is 
not advisable permanently to leave this comb in the new brood- 
chamber, because if preparation for swarming has already been in 
progress the bees sometimes start queencells on this comb of brood 
and later cast a swarm. When the bees are inclined to do this, the 
frame of brood should be removed a few days after the treatment. 
As the brood emerges in the original brood-chamber the vacated 
cells are filled with honey during a good honey-flow and the former 
brood-chamber now becomes a super. If it contained some inferior 
honey when it was put above, which would reduce the quality of the 
crop, it may be better to reserve these combs of honey for winter 
stores. If increase is desired, this upper hive body of emerging 
brood may be removed from the hive a week or 10 days after it was 
put up and used to form a new colony. When this is done, the 
queencells should not be destroyed, unless it is desirable to give this 
new colony a queencell reared from better stock (see p. 7). If a 
queen-excluder has not been in use previously, it will be more difficult 
to find the queen as well as to destroy the queencells. 
When comb-honey is being produced the procedure is practically 
the same, except in the disposition of the brood that is removed. This 
can not well be placed above the comb-honey supers and the emerging 
bees added to the colony as when producing extracted honey, but the 
emerging brood may be placed in a separate hive located by the side 
of the original hive (fig. 7), so that a large number of the emerging 
bees may be united later with the swarm when they are old enough 
for field work, simply by moving the hive to another location while 
these young bees are at work in the fields (see p. 27). 
When the brood is removed in comb-honey production it is neces- 
sary, therefore, to leave enough bees with the brood to care for it. 
This can be done by placing the hive body which contains the brood 
