HOW TO MAKE INCREASE 



stand and put in its place a hive containing 

 frames of comb or foundation, the same as 

 you would put the swarm in providing it had 

 just swarmed. Now remove the centre comb 

 from your new hive, and put in its place a 

 frame of brood, either from the hive you wish 

 to divide or some other colony that can spare 

 one, and be sure you find the queen and put 

 her on this frame of brood in the new hive; 

 also look it over very carefully to see that it 

 contains no eggs or larvae in any queen cells. 

 If it does, destroy them. Now put a queen- 

 excluding honey-board on top of this new 

 hive that contains the queen and frame of 

 brood with their empty combs, then set your 

 full queenless colony on top of the excluder; 

 put the empty comb or frame of foundation 

 into the body from which you took the frame 

 of brood; and close the upper hive except the 

 entrance they have through the excluder into 

 the hive below. Leave them in this way 

 about five days, then look over the combs 

 carefully, and destroy any larvae you may 



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