380 COMB HONEY. 
is to prevent any field bees returning to the parent colony. A 
day or so later it is turned about 45° toward its former position 
(fig. 16) and as soon as the bees have this location of the entrance 
well marked the hive is placed parallel to the hive on the old stand 
(fig. 17). So far as the 
bees returning from the 
field are concerned, these 
two colonies are now on 
the same stand. 
The further disposition 
of the remnant of the 
brood and young bees 
may be by any one of 
the following methods: 
(1) One week after the 
swarm issues, or just be- 
fore the parent colony 
would cast a second or 
‘‘after-swarm,’’ it may, 
when the bees are well at 
work in the fields, be removed and given a new location. This 
throws the entire flying force into the colony having the supers, 
where they are of greatest service, and so depletes the other colony 
of its flying bees just when the young queens are emerging that 
‘‘after-swarming”’ is usually prevented. (2) Before moving it away 
the parent colony may bemore 
thoroughly depleted of its 
young bees by shaking most 
of them from their combs, 
adding them of course to the 
colony with the supers. The 
comb containing the finest 
queen cells should not be 
shaken, since to do so will 
probably injure the immature 
queens. ‘Two or three frames 
should be left with their ad- 
hering bees in order that the 
parent colony will stillcontain — Fic. 17.—Hive with brood turned parallel to old en- 
enough workers to care for the are Py 
remaining unemerged brood. (8) Instead of moving the parent colony 
away as in (1) above, the bees may all be added to the swarm by shaking 
them from their combs, and the combs then distributed among nuclei 
previously prepared. By successive additions of frames of brood 
these nuclei are finally built up into fuil colonies and ‘‘after-swarming”’ 
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Fic. 16.—Hive with brood turned back to 45 degrees from old 
entrance. (Original.) 
