38 COMB HONEY. 
usually gives excellent results, since by its use the workers, queen, 
and supers are kept together during the flow. The following are some 
of the various plans employing this principle of swarm control: 
(1) Find the queen and put the comb on which she is found to 
one side, then shake the bees from most of the other combs into or in 
front of their hive. As the combs of brood are removed put frames 
containing either narrow strips or full sheets of foundation or combs 
into the hive and replace the supers. When most of the shaken bees 
are in the hive, place the queen among them. Put all the brood and 
the few bees remaining thereon into another hive close beside the 
shaken colony (fig. 17). Enough bees should be left on the combs of 
brood to care for it; usually two combs are not shaken at all, but 
placed in the other hive with all the adhering bees. For further 
disposition of the brood see page 29. 
(2) In order to avoid the trouble of finding the queen, the above 
plan may be varied by shaking and brushing all the bees from the 
combs so as to be sure that the queen is among them. In this case 
the brood may be utilized by one of the following plans: (a) Use 
it to build up weaker colonies (p. 31) or (b) place it in a hive body 
over a queen excluder on top of the forced swarm or some colony not 
being used for comb-honey production that can spare enough bees 
to care for it. In a short time bees will pass through the excluder 
and cover the brood, after which the hive body containing it is 
removed, supplied with a cover and bottom board, and placed at one 
side of the foreed swarm so that the emerging bees may later be 
added to the swarm. Or (c) after the shaking is complete, remove 
the forced swarm and put the hive body containing the brood tem- ~ 
porarily back on the original stand to induce field bees to enter it. 
Then in the evening set it aside and restore the swarm to its position 
on the old stand. These field bees will be able to prevent the brood 
being chilled during the night but in returning from the fields the 
next day will enter the hive on the old stand. In the meantime 
enough young bees will have emerged to care for the brood. 
(3) Removing all the brood and substituting frames containing 
narrow strips or full sheets of foundation sometimes results in the 
colony swarming out the next day. This may be avoided by remov- 
ing the brood in two installments with an interval of a few days 
between the two operations. When the brood is not all removed, 
full sheets of foundation or empty combs should be used or an 
excessive amount of drone comb will be built. 
With sectional hives, stand the brood chamber on end, smoke the 
bees out of the lower section, and remove it. Destroy queen cells in 
the upper-hive section. These will almost universally be found pro- 
jecting into the space between the two sections of the brood chamber. 
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