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cient size is formed. If extracted honey is being produced, this 
escape board may be removed before the close of the honey-flow to 
unite the two divisions, in which case the bees will kill the old queen 
later, if not at this time; thus the colony is requeened without the 
necessity of finding the queen. 
3. Use two hive bodies for brood-rearing during the spring. Pre- 
vious to the swarming season, insert a queen-excluder between the two 
hive bodies to confine the queen to one of them. Ten days later divide 
the colony by removing the brood-chamber which contains the queen, 
leaving the queenless portion on the old stand. To determine which 
hive body contains the queen, it is only necessary to remove one of 
the brood-combs from the middle of the brood-chamber to look for 
eggs or young larve, since in the brood-chamber from which the 
A B Cc 
Fie. 12.—Creating conditions comparable to a parent colony. Plan 3 as modified 
for comb-honey. A, Brood in both stories previous to honey-flow. B, Comb-honey 
super and queen-excluder inserted between two hive bodies at beginning of honey-flow. 
It is not known at this time which hive body contains the queen. ©, Hive body con- 
taining the queen (2) removed and established as separate hive. Queencell is placed in 
1. In the illustration it is assumed that the queen was in 2 when the queen-excluder 
was inserted in B. She may have been in 7 at that time, in which case, of course, this 
brood-chamber is removed. 
queen has been excluded the brood is all sealed at this time. Supply 
the queenless portion with a young laying queen or a ripe queencell. 
The two divisions may be reunited later or that portion containing 
the old queen may be moved to a new location for increase (p. 27) a 
week or 10 days after the division, whereupon the field bees from the 
removed hive will return to the hive on the old stand, thus strength- 
ening the colony that is working in the supers. If extracted honey is 
being produced the division containing the old queen may be reunited 
with the other division two weeks later by placing the brood-chamber 
above the supers, in which case the bees will probably kill the old 
queen later in the season if not at this time. By this plan it is not 
necessary to find the queen. 
For comb-honey production this treatment may be applied at the 
time the first comb-honey super is given. This comb-honey super may 
be placed between the two hive bodies if preferred (fig. 12, A, B), to 
