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as they are examined to be sure that none are overlooked. Either at 
this time or a few days later introduce a young queen that has just 
recently begun to lay, by means of an ordinary introducing cage, 
which may simply be thrust into the entrance of the hive until the 
queen has been released. 
Some beekeepers, instead of introducing a young laying queen, 
destroy all but one of the queencells and permit the colony to requeen 
itself from this remaining queencell, but in some cases such colonies 
will swarm soon after the young queen emerges from the cell, espe- 
cially if the colony had made preparations for swarming before be- 
ing treated (p. 32). 
Instead of introducing a young queen, the original queen may be 
returned to her colony, the same care being used in introducing as 
with any other queen. It is not necessary to return the same queen, 
but a queen may be taken from any colony for this purpose. If the 
original queen is to be returned to the colony, she may simply be 
caged within the hive during the interval of 10 days instead of being 
taken from the hive, then a few days after the queencells have been 
destroyed she may be released among the bees. Practically the same 
result can be accomplished without finding the queen by shaking the 
bees together with the queen into the brood-chamber, which is now 
left empty except for one comb. The queen should be confined to this 
nearly empty hive body by means of a queen-excluder, the brood 
being placed above the excluder in another hive body. (Fig. 11, 
A,B.) After the queen has thus been separated from the brood for 
10 days the queencells should all be destroyed and the extra hive 
body should be removed (fig. 11, C’), the queen and the bees in this 
hive body being returned to the original brood-chamber. When the 
old queen is returned to the colony in this way, however, the tendency 
to prepare for swarming again is considerably stronger than when 
a young queen that has just begun to lay is given. A colony to 
which a young queen is given after an interval of queenlessness of at 
least 10 days is more nearly like a parent colony in nature and 
usually does not prepare to swarm again the same season. 
When two hive bodies are used for brood-rearing previous to the 
honey-flow, these two-story hives may be divided at the beginning 
of the honey-flow, leaving most of the brood in the hive on the old 
stand, the queen and the remaining brood together with some adher- 
ing bees being placed in the other hive body, which is now supplied 
with a cover and bottom and set near the original hive. If any 
queencells are present at the time the division is made, these must 
be destroyed. The supers are given to the now. queenless colony 
on the old stand. Ten days later the queencells should be destroyed 
and a young queen introduced, as described above. The two colonies 
