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is prevented. (4) Instead of giving the parent colony a new location, 
as in (1) above, it may be shifted to the opposite side of the swarm on 
the old stand (fig. 18) and by thus shifting it from one side to the 
other at intervals of several days the young bees as they hatch and 
learn to fly will finally all be added to the colony with the supers. 
Few beekeepers, however, go to this extreme, as the season usually 
closes before the latest emerging young bees are thus transferred to 
the colony with the supers and these later-emerging bees may be 
used for increase at little if amy expense in-surplus honey. (5) If 
increase is not desired, the bees may be added to the swarm on the old 
stand as before, and after 10 or 15 days the combs of the parent 
colony still containing some unhatched brood may be used on which 
to hive another swarm. Before being used for this purpose the bees 
are of course shaken from these combs and added as before to the 
swarm on the old stand. (6) If the honey flow is of long duration or 
conditions otherwise such that 
the storing colony may prepare 
to swarm again, the brood cham- 
ber of the parent colony may be 
left by the side of the swarm (fig. 
18) until the young queen begins 
to lay, then restored to its origi- 
nal position on the old stand and 
the supers transferred toit. The 
brood chamber containing the 
old queen is moved to one side, 
its flying bees thus induced to 
enter the hive containing the Fig. 18.—Hive with brood placed on other side of 
young queen. ‘The two colonies ole oe OnE my) 
may afterwards be united or the one containing the old queen may 
finally be moved to a new location for increase. If, when using 
this plan, a virgin queen or a ripe queen cell is given the parent 
colony just after’the swarm issues, this colony is ready to be restored 
to its original position on the old stand about a week earlier than if 
left to requeen itself. 
In case the emerging bees are not to be added to the storing colony 
the brood and young bees may be used in one of the following ways: 
(1) They may be used immediately after the swarm issues to build up 
such colonies as are not strong enough to work in the supers or to 
build up previously prepared nuclei, as in (3) above. Before being 
used in these ways the adhering bees are usually added to the swarm. 
(2) The parent colony may be placed at once on a new stand and given 
a laying or virgin queen. To allow such a colony to requeen itself 
usually results in its casting an ‘‘after swarm,” since it becomes quite 
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