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cause the bees to begin work in it more readily, the queen-excluder 
being placed above the comb-honey super. An escape board without 
the bee-escape should also be placed over the comb-honey supers to 
prevent the sections being soiled from the brood combs above and at 
the same time permitting communication between the two hive bodies 
through the hole in the escape board, or the queen-excluder can be 
dispensed with by tacking a piece of perforated metal over the hole 
in the escape board. In this case the upper hive body usually should 
not be left for the full 10 days but the division may be made earlier 
to prevent the sections being soiled and to cause the bees to store in- 
coming néctar in the sections, instead of in the upper brood-chamber. 
After four or five days the presence of eggs and small larvee indicates 
which brood-chamber contains the queen, after which the division 
may be made at any time up to 10 days, the queenless division being 
left on the old stand. Ten days after the queen has been excluded 
from the brood-chamber now left on the old stand, all queencells 
should be destroyed and a ripe queencell or a young laying queen 
should be given. (Fig. 12, (.) 
RADICAL CHANGES UNNECESSARY NEAR CLOSE OF SEASON. 
During the latter part of the honey-flow colonies that are prepar- 
ing to swarm may be induced to give up swarming much more easily 
than earlier in the season. In fact as the season is drawing to a 
close colonies having sealed queencells preparatory to swarming some- 
times tear down such cells of their own accord and give up swarming 
for the season. 
Natural swarms that issue near the close of the honey-flow may be 
hived in an empty box, which is placed by the side of the parent colony 
for 24 to 48 hours, then hived back into their own hive. After the 
swarm enters the parent colony the queencells are usually destroyed 
and the bees apparently are satisfied. If this is done earlier in the 
season, however, further swarming usually results. 
Colonies that are preparing to swarm near the close of the season 
may be induced to destroy their own queencells and give up swarm- 
ing by moving the hive away and substituting another hive con- 
taining two combs of brood (some unsealed brood is necessary) with- 
out queencells, the remaining space in the brood-chamber being left 
vacant. The supers are then transferred to the prepared hive on the 
original stand, and the queen is left in the original hive which is set 
at one side or on top of the prepared hive. (Fig. 13,A,4.) Ifthe 
bees are well at work in the fields when this is done and the original 
hive is so located that the returning bees do not enter it, but enter the 
prepared hive, the original hive becomes so depleted of bees that the 
queencells are destroyed and swarming is given up. The other 
division can not swarm because it has no queen. After four or five 
