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FIFTY YEARS A^iONG THE BEES 



young queen in the bunch to incite them to sail off into 

 the ethereal blue — well, it was not the sort of meditation 

 most conducive to composure of mind. 



Inside of the hive the program as laid down was 

 pretty generally carried out; at the proper time the ex- 

 cluder was removed, and in due time the young queen 

 was laying. The plan is a good one if one could only in- 

 duce the bees to refrain from swarming out until only 

 one young queen is left in the hive. I could not induce 

 them to do that. 





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P^g- 59 — Brood of Laying Workers. 

 REARING QUEEN IN '"pUT-UP.'" 



It is not necessary to tell of all the plans that were 

 tried. One was finally hit upon that proved to 

 be quite satisfactory, so far as tried. When the 

 presence of well-advanced queen-cells showed that 

 a colony was. bent on swarming, all but one or 

 two frames of brood were taken from the hive and put 

 in another hive that was "put-up" on top, of course hav- 



