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-up close to get her to one side of the hive with the frame the queen is on in 

 the middle. Now put a queen-excluding honey-board on the hive, afid 

 an empty hive-body on top of th-is ; then set the frames of brood and the 

 adhering bees in the empty hive and push the frames to one side of the 

 hive just over the frames in the lower hive. Now set the division-board in 

 the top, hive close beside the outside frame of brood; then set a feeder in 

 this opeq space between the side of the hive and division-board, and fill 

 it full of feed and put the cover on. 



On the evening of the next day go back to the hive you had killed the 

 inferior queen in two days previously, and lift out all the frames except 

 two or three which have only scattered honey around in them; and as you 

 lift the frames out, brush all the bees off the comb back in the hive and 

 put the cover back on. Now take these five or six frames from which 

 you have brushed the bees and carry them to the hive you had, one day 

 previously, divided into two parts, and lift the top story off gently and re- 

 move the queen-excluding board; then look over carefully the frames you 

 have carried to the hive, and set all of them to one side in which the 

 bees have started queen-cells (it is likely they have started a nice batch 

 of them by this time). Then set the frames that have no queen-cells in 

 them in the bottom story of the hive, which will be about enough to 

 finish filling it, and the queen you have confined to the bottom story now 

 has another full set of frames to occupy. 



Now put the queen-excluding board back on the lower story, and set 

 back the top story on this. Now make a little grafting-tool by sticking 

 the sharp end of a pin in the hollow of a broom straw, and with the head 

 of the pin remove all the larvae, or yoimg bees, you find in the queen-cells 

 started about on the comb which you brought to this hive. 



Now take out one of the frames in the top story; then begin to 

 graft the cells by inserting the grafting-tool, or the head of the pin, down 

 in the cells, gently working the head up under the tiny larva ; then lift it 

 out gently and insert it in the queen-cell and leave the larvae down in the 

 bottom of the cells from which you removed the other young bees. Be 

 careful in this operation not to mash the tiny bee, but gently remove it 

 from the head of the pin on to the royal jelly. 



The larvs for this purpose must be very small, or not over three days old, 

 and two days is better. After you have thus grafted all the queen-cells started 

 in the comb you have brought to the hive, set the frames in the top story, 

 and again fill the feeder up and put the cover on. 



Now, as there is no queen present in this top story (she being con- 

 fined to the bottom story by the queen-excluding board), the bees seem 

 queenless; and the feed being scattered plentifully over the comb, the bees 

 will feed the larvae well, and good cells will be built. Bees will often build 

 cells when their brood is put up in top stories and no queen present; and 

 they are sure to if started cells are given them, and they may build a nice 

 batch of fine cells. But during this operation the weather must not be too 



