a bottom board and placed where the old colony stood, and the 
old colony moved to a stand ten feet away. 
A new queen will be reared in the old hive, and the hatching 
bees will make a fair-sized colony if the old colony was populous. 
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Fig. 42. Showing the several parts of a modern beehive and their relation 
one to the other (Root). 
At the end of three weeks the operation should be repeated on the 
old colony, and this second drive hived as a separate swarm or it 
may be united with the first drive. The combs can then be cut 
from the old hive and made into wax. 
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