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may be reunited at the close of the honey-flow if comb-honey is 
being produced, or before the close of the honey-flow if extracted 
honey is being produced. 
2. If the bees have been wintered in a single brood-chamber, give 
a second brood-chamber when the colonies need more room in the 
spring, placing this second brood-chamber on top. When old brood 
combs are used in this second brood-chamber, the queen usually 
goes into it within a few days. After a week or 10 days divide the 
colony by removing the upper hive body, which usually at this time 
contains the queen, and place supers on the hive body which remains 
on the old stand. If the nights are cool, such a division may result 
Fic. 11.—Creating conditions comparable to 2 parent colony. Plan 1 modified to return 
the original queen after her separation from the brood for ten days. A, Colony prepar- 
ing to swarm. B, Bees together with queen shaken from all but one of combs of 
brood, these combs being placed in second story (1) above a queen-excluder, thus con- 
fining the queen in a nearly empty hive body (2) below the brood. O, Ten days later 
all queencells are destroyed and the queen is returned to the brood, the extra hive body 
being removed. 
in the loss of some brood in the brood-chamber that is removed, for 
it is the youngest of the brood that is removed. After the brood is 
all sealed in the brood-chamber on the old stand destroy all queen- 
cells and introduce a young laying queen or permit this division to 
requeen itself by leaving one queencell (p. 40). The two divisions 
may be left standing side by side in order that they may be reunited 
later. If extra covers and bottoms are not available, the division 
may be made by using an escape board as a cover for the hive on the 
original stand, having the bee-escape removed and the hole for the 
bee-escape entirely closed, the brood-chamber containing the queen 
being on top of this escape board and the regular cover used over all. 
In this case an entrance should be provided for the upper hive body 
by pushing it forward on the escape board until an opening of suffi- 
