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Feed carefully so that there is always a little store in 
hand, but not enough to hinder the operations of the 
queen. Continue such stimulation until honey comes in. 
It is so frequently recommended that the contents of 
fixed comb hives should be transferred 21 days after 
swarming, that I consider it advisable to show that this 
waste of time is quite unnecessary. The swarm should 
be hived upon six or seven sheets of foundation close to 
the parent colony and facing the same way. Within ten 
days the young queens will be hatching out when a cast 
or second swarm would issue from the old stock. This 
appears to have been overlooked; therefore I advise 
transferring on the seventh day after the issue of the first 
swarm, first carefully removing one of the queen cells 
before druming on the hive. While shifting the combs, 
cut out all the other royal cells, and after the operation 
return the one previously removed, which meanwhile 
should have been placed above the first swarm between the 
quilting to prevent chill. As soon as the young queen 
hatched therefrom is laying freely, destroy the other and 
unite the two colonies on the second evening following, 
when supers may be at once put on. 
It is better that transferring operations be carried out in 
some warm room, or manipulating house, first laying a 
sheet of paper on the table whereon the tapes are to be 
arranged, with the frames on those, so that all is in 
readiness for tying as soon as the combs are fitted. While 
it is not absolutely necessary that the combs be fitted in 
just the same way up as they were built, it is not desirable 
to have them inverted, but to save material it is often 
advisable to put them in on end, or half inverted, as I 
have done for many years past. Certainly there is the brood 
to handle if transferred before the 21 days have expired, 
but with ordinary care this is not damaged, except where 
