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Return the queen, when the bees about the sides of 
the hive, and the large number returning will make a good 
swarm. A full size stock chamber is as good as a shallow 
one for this purpose. After 24 hours replace the sections 
you require to be completed, above this swarm. Being late 
the bees will not build much below, but they finish 
perfectly the section combs above, as the fresh start under 
the swarming impulse has excited them just enough to 
make them secrete more wax for comb building than 
they would otherwise do towards the end of the honey 
season. 
Considerable judgment is required as to whether a fresh 
set of sections is to be added above those being finished ; 
but certainly after the first are completed and removed, one 
may start another set, if only that drawn combs may be 
secured for the following year. 
The original combs will be covered by young bees 
meantime, and will have a young queen laying (or one 
supplied), which will take the place of the old one, when 
the two lots may be re-united. 
Feeding Back to Complete Sections 
over these improvised swarms will be found far better than 
the attempts that have hitherto been made to feed back 
extracted honey to normal stocks in the hope that unfinished 
sections may thus be completed. With colonies retaining 
the whole of their stock combs (or any of them) there has 
always been too much waste to allow of the operator 
seeing any profit on the process as generally attempted. 
By the adoption of this plan of swarming on starters at the 
close of the season, the feeding back of extracted honey to 
complete comb-honey will be found eminently satisfactory 
if a little water is added to the honey when very thick or 
quite ripe. 
