HOW TO MAKE INCREASE 



be destroyed, but this will not occur more than 

 in one case out of a hundred, and when her 

 loss is discovered, a new queen should be 

 introduced at once by the method described. 



Of course it is understood that a caged 

 queen is not to be given to the first division 

 that was made, as that nucleus has the original 

 queen given to them when the division was made. 



If you desire to increase one colony up to 

 ten, the method of procedure is identically 

 the same, and differs only in that you give 

 each empty hive but one frame of bees and 

 brood instead of two. 



A few days after the division has been made 

 it is well to examine each nucleus, and when 

 it is found that the bees have begun to work 

 on the frame of foundation next to their 

 frame of bees and brood, it can be lifted out 

 and inserted between the two frames of brood, 

 as this will facilitate its rapid completion. 

 In this way the completed combs can be 

 spread every few days until all the sheets 

 of foundation are drawn out to full combs. 



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