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after vainly seeking her abroad, re-assemble and go on to 
work. If allowed to continue there they work in connection 
with the original force ; but, in this case, all surplus queen 
cells must be cut out, and the zinc removed from the upper 
entrance that the young queen remaining may leave for her 
natural purposes. 
As young queens will be hatching within nine days, the 
original stock may otherwise be removed within that period, 
replacing the supers over the swarm until the bees may be 
re-united with the young queen:as in “ Swarming without 
increase.” 
A similar plan of treating the swarm and stock (without 
the swarm catcher) has been recommended more recently 
by the late Mr. Alexander, of America, and others, as a new 
development, but no attempt has been made to re-unite the 
total force with the young queen. 
Two or more Queens in Tiering Hives. 
The illustration first given in my 1893 edition will show 
how two or more queens can be worked with stocks one 
above the other. The bees are first united by leaving a 
sheet of woven wire or small-hole zinc between the stocks 
for a few hours; but the tiering plan is not so simple or 
convenient as the Double and Treble hive management: 
described in Chapter XIX. (See also Fig. 12.) 
THE CONTROL OF SWARMING 
By Division, and Re-uniting with Young Queens. 
Except in the few districts where the season is protracted, 
increase is obtained at the expense of honey, but in any 
case it is not desirable to take more than one swarm from 
the old stock; and this division, to give the best results, 
should be made either before the first honey-flow occurs, 
providing the colony can be made strong at that time, or 
