HOW TO MAKE INCREASE 



the feed, insert the little cage with the queen, 

 the feed end down, between the frames of 

 brood and bees in the new hive; push the 

 frames close together, and, closing the entrance 

 of the hive, place it on the stand it is to oc- 

 cupy. In about two days the imprisoned bees 

 will eat a passageway through the feed to 

 liberate the queen, and by the time she is lib- 

 erated she will have acquired the odor of the 

 colony and be accepted, whereas if she had 

 been liberated at once at time of division, the 

 bees would have perceived her to be a stranger 

 and killed her. Treat the remaining empty 

 hives the same way, and when all have two 

 frames of bees and brood with a new queen 

 you will have five little colonies all ready 

 to get to work as soon as we take away the 

 strip of wood from their entrances. 



The original hive that was divided should 

 be left on its old stand with the last two 

 frames of bees and brood and the cage con- 

 taining the queen. (See chapter on "Queen 

 Rearing" in reference to introducing queens.) 



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