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duction of extracted honey, as described in Productive Beekeep- 

 ing. 



If the extracted honey producer can keep his colony to- 

 gether during the season, he should be able to get maximum 

 results. Some increase is necessary in most any apiary, with 

 any kind of system, to replace such colonies as are lost through 

 failing queens, poor wintering or other causes, even though 

 the beekeeper does not care to make extensions. 



If the bees can be kept from swarming and the young 

 queen be mated in a separate compartment, she can rear her 

 own colony in due time, and they can be removed without 

 reducing the product of the old queen, whose progeny will 

 remain with the parent colony. 



To begin with, when the colony becomes populous, place 

 the queen on a frame of brood in an empty hivebody and fill 

 out with empty combs. This is set on the regular hivestand 

 occupied by the colony. The working force coming from the 

 field will find their queen with an abundance of room in which 

 to lay. This is the system of swarm control advocated by 

 Demaree to this point. Now place a queen excluder over the 

 hivebody containing the queen, and over this, a super of empty 

 combs. On top of these is set the original hivebody contain- 

 ing the brood. A hole is bored in this upper hivebody to give 

 the bees an extra entrance above. About twenty-four hours 

 later a ripe queen cell is placed in the upper story with the 

 brood. The queen will emerge in a day or two, and, in due 

 time, will leave the hive on her mating flight, by way of the 

 augur hole. Within a few days more she will be laying in the 

 upper hivebody, while the activities of the bees will continue 

 without interruption in the lower story. Within three weeks 

 all the brood from the old queen (in the upper story) will have 

 emerged. The brood which now appears in the upper story 

 is a net addition to the resources of the colony, and, when the 

 upper story is nearly filled with brood, it can be removed and 

 placed on a new stand without checking the work of the colony. 



To illustrate: A strong colony was given a queen cell 

 as above described on May 21st. On July 14th, the upper 



