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Fig. 38. A small colony is confined to such space as it can cover, by the 

 use of a division board 



boards. Other divisions are made in different ways, according 

 to circumstances. We may take only 2 or 3 frames from a full 

 colony, with a large number of young bees, treating them 

 in the same way as those above mentioned. Or we may divide 

 2 colonies to make one swarm, taking the brood from one and 

 leaving the bees with the queen on the old stand, and taking the 

 bees from the other by placing the division thus made on the 

 stand of the second colony and removing it to a new spot. 

 The colonies that are made from only 2 or 3 frames of brood 

 and bees, will need to be helped later with more brood and 

 perhaps more bees, while those that are built from 2 other hives 

 are at once as powerful as the latter. The 2 or 3-frame colonies, 

 narrowed to such a space as they can cover, with a division 

 board, may be called "nuclei," while the others are at once full 

 colonies. The method of procedure depends entirely upon 



