256 A Modern Bee-Farm 
with the young queen presiding. The united stock should 
not have more than ten or eleven frames in all if comb- 
honey is desired, while the remainder of the broodless 
combs can be used for extracting purposes. 
When more than one young queen may be desired, 
break up the removed combs into the necessary number 
ot nuclei with a queen cell to each on the eighth day 
after swarming, and re-unite as soon as the queens can be 
appropriated. 
For obtaining one swarm from each stock, and in 
desiring to 
Prevent After-swarms, 
proceed in the same way, except that the removed combs 
and bees are to be placed at a distance from the old 
position, and no uniting takes place. This plan of 
obtaining one swarm and throwing the whole working 
force with the same, while making it a certainty that the 
other portion will cause no trouble was well known to, 
and practised by, most of the old masters. In this case, 
there is no time wasted in cutting out queen cells, an 
operation that cannot be tolerated in a modern honey- 
producing apiary. Should there be any fear of the bees 
being strong enough to swarm again, a few more shaken 
off with the new swarm will settle that matter. As soon 
as the young queen, or one already on hand, has six or 
seven combs crowded with brood, supers may be placed 
on her hive also, at the same time giving two more empty 
combs or foundation near the centre. Upon removal of 
the sections there will probably be hardly an ounce of 
honey in the stock combs, when another empty comb or 
two must be inserted and feeding be followed up, so that 
the brood nest is gradually reduced and the combs stored 
for Winter. 
