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shaking the bees from the combs, from the upper into the lower hive 
body, and confine the queen below by means of a queen-excluder. 
(Fig. 10, C.) If the honey-flow is beginning, add a super of ex- 
tracting combs (fig. 10, C), then place the recently used brood- 
chamber on top as a third story. Ten days later destroy all queen- 
cells in the queenless brood-chamber, then shake the bees together 
with the queen from the combs in the lower brood-chamber, placing 
the combs of brood into an empty hive body and giving back either 
empty combs or frames of foundation, together with one empty comb. 
Replace the queen-excluder and the supers, adding an additional 
one if needed, and finally place the brood-chamber containing the 
brood just removed on top of the supers. (Fig. 10, 2.) To avoid 
shaking, the queen may be found, and together with a frame of 
brood, she may be placed in the extra hive body containing the empty 
combs or foundation, after which this extra hive body is put in place 
of the former brood-chamber, and the former brood-chamber is 
placed on top of the supers. This double treatment is not always 
necessary, but should completely control swarming in localities where 
the swarming tendency is strong. 
This plan can be modified for comb-honey production if the colonies 
are strong by putting the queen down into the lower hive body after 
she has abandoned it long enough for all the brood to be sealed, re- 
moving the upper hive body entirely, the bees being shaken from the 
combs into the lower hive body, and one or two comb-honey supers 
being given. The brood that is taken away may be placed above 
queen-excluders on another colony not now being used for comb- 
honey. Six or seven of these brood-chambers may be given to each 
colony that is used for this purpose. Ten days later treat each colony 
as in plan No. 1 above, substituting for their brood-combs the combs 
of emerging brood that were removed before, first destroying all the 
queencells, if any are present. The combs of brood that are removed 
during this operation may be put into a separate hive and handled 
as a parent colony (fig. 7) or disposed of in some other way. Thus 
the bees are shaken twice, with an interval of 10 days between, on 
combs containing none but emerging brood (p, 29). 
CREATING CONDITIONS COMPARABLE TO THE PARENT COLONY. 
1. When the bees begin to make preparations for swarming, find 
and remove the queen. If it is desirable to keep her, she may be 
placed in another hive, together with the comb of brood on which she 
was found, to form a nucleus, or she may be killed if not needed. If 
queencells have already been started these should all be destroyed at 
the time the queen is removed. Ten days later again destroy all 
queencells, being careful to shake most of the bees from the combs 
