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Making a New Swarm Draw out its own Super 
Foundation. 
Swarms are rarely made to store as much honey in 
sections as they should do, and yet when they are first 
hived they are always in the best possible condition for wax 
working, 
The process to be followed is this :—Instead of giving a 
full set of stock frames in the first instance, whether they 
have combs or brood foundation, only half the usual 
number should be allowed to start with, and these inter- 
sected by narrow sections, or halved (2in.) sections in the 
twin holders. These are removed and exchanged for fresh 
sets, as fast as partly drawn, leaving them only a few hours 
as before. 
As soon as sufficient drawn combs are secured to start 
two supers, the full complement of brood frames is made 
up and the two supers placed above. 
No Full-depth Cells ; the Scent of the Hive. 
I have repeatedly pointed out that there is nothing to be 
gained by waiting for full-depth cells to be worked before 
removal of the drawn combs. It would only result in loss 
of time and partly storing of food or honey not required in 
these raised cells. 
Being partly worked, and the combs and sections once 
having the scent of the hive, further colonies, or the swarms 
as above, over which the drawn combs may be placed, will 
readily occupy them, and complete the work very rapidly. 
Wholesale Production of Drawn Combs on the. 
Advent of the Honey Flow. 
If the reader will refer to page 305, he will see how he 
may secure a very large number of sections started with 
newly drawn combs as the season opens, and just when 
