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back on the hive immediately after the shaking is complete, but 
placing it above a queen-excluder until enough bees return to these 
combs to care for the brood before it is established as a separate hive. 
Another way to do this is to find the queen before shaking any bees 
from the combs, then transfer two or three combs to the extra hive 
body without shaking off the adhering bees, in order to have bees 
enough in this hive to care for the brood, the queen, of course, being 
put back into the brood-chamber on the old stand. In either case, if 
increase is made from this removed brood, these new colonies should 
be supplied with good queencells, since when artificial swarms are 
Fic. 8.—Creating conditions comparable to a swarm. Plan 2 for extracted honey. A, 
Brood in both hive bodies in the spring. B, Supers 3 and 4 are added as more room is 
needed, queen usually abandoning lower brood-chamber (1). ©C, Queen placed below ex- 
cluder in lower hive body (1) after all brood in this chamber has been sealed. Empty 
super (5) is added and brood (2) is placed on top. 
made in this way conditions often are not as favorable for the devel- 
opment of a good queen as in the case of the parent colony in natural 
swarming. 
2. Use two hive bodies for brood-rearing previous to the swarming 
season. Tor extracted honey, add supers of empty combs above these 
two hive bodies as soon as more room is needed and do not use a 
queen-excluder. (Fig. 8, A.) Under these conditions the queen 
usually abandons the lower hive body as the season advances. (Fig. 
8, B.) Ten days or more after she has abandoned it, when all the 
remaining brood in this hive body will have been sealed, find the 
queen, put her into the lower hive body, and confine her thereby means 
