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the brood on the old stand in one hive body, placing the queen, 
remaining brood, and enough bees to care for it in the other hive 
body which is set beside the first. The supers are of course given to 
the queenless colony on the old stand, which after the proper interval 
of queenlessness is allowed to requeen itself or is requeened by the 
beekeeper as in (1): above. The colony containing the old queen may 
be used to strengthen the storing colony by shifting its position from 
one side of it to the other (p. 31), or used for increase. 
(3) Ten days before the honey flow is expected to begin, put most 
of the brood into a single hive body, on this a queen excluder, and over 
this a second hive body with a frame of brood and the queen, the other 
combs of this set being empty except perhaps a little brood and honey. 
Nine or ten days later remove the upper story, supply it with a bottom 
board, and place it close beside the original hive. Destroy queen cells 
if any are present in the queenless portion which remains on the old 
stand, give a ripe queen cell, virgin queen, or a young laying queen, 
and put on the supers. The brood chamber containing the old queen 
may be used to make increase or its flying bees may be united with 
the storing colony (p. 31). 
By any of these methods there is a break of 10 to 15 days in the 
continuity of brood emergence in the brood chamber left on the old 
stand and the colonies are requeened with young queens—each a 
strong factor in swarm control and when combined should with rare 
exceptions result in no swarming. 
REMOVING THE BROOD FROM THE HIVE, 
Since removing the brood brings about conditions quite similar to 
that of natural swarming (p. 28), such a management of the colonies 
is practically identical with that of natural swarming. The use of the 
brood that is removed (p. 29), the question of what should be used in 
the brood chamber instead of the removed brood (p. 32), the contrac- 
tion of the brood chamber (p. 33), etc., have been discussed under 
natural swarming and need not be repeated here. While some of the 
plans using this principle may be applied to all the colonies in the 
apiary before swarming actually begins, the usual practice is to apply 
them only to such colonies as are making preparations to swarm. It 
should not be used on weak colonies, on colonies having a small per- 
centage of sealed and emerging brood and few young bees, on colonies 
in which the queen is failing, or on any colonies during a very poor 
season. Under any of these conditions it is usually better to dis- 
courage swarming by destroying queen cells (p. 27), by removing 
one or two frames of brood, or, if some control measure is finally 
necessary, by requeening such colonies after an interval of queenless- 
ness. On the other hand, for strong colonies having a high percent- 
age of sealed and emerging brood and a good queen the method 
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