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all eggs in the hive will have hatched during the three days 

 prior to the return of the swarm, and the swarming fever will 

 probably have spent itself. Before returning the swarm, 

 examine the parent stock and remove all queen cells ; then put 

 a frame of foundation in the centre, if necessary removing a 

 front or back frame to provide room. If a hive is being worked 

 for extracting, transfer to the super-hox of the extracting hive 

 as many frames of brood as may be removed in accordance with 

 the instructions given in paragraph 98. 



If, as is improbable, the swarm issued from a hive which 

 had been supered with frames for extract- 



98. Treatment of ing, or from one which had not been 

 Swarm which issues supered, but which it is intended to work 

 from Hive Supered for extracting, the procedure would be 



for Extracting, slightly different ; still assuming that it is 

 not desired to increase the stocks — first, 

 in the case of a hive supered for extracting, instead of transfer- 

 ring the frames from the parent hive to a box as directed in 

 paragraph 96, remove from the isuper-boxas many frames as are 

 fit for removal for extracting, extract them, and in their place 

 transfer from the brood chamber to the super-box as many of 

 the most advanced brood frames, not exceeding six, as there 

 is room for in the super-box, removing all queen cells from 

 them. Next examine the remaining frames in the brood 

 chamber and remove all queen cells ; then place three or four 

 frames of foundation in the brood chamber, alternating them 

 with the frames left therein ; fit a board behind the dummy 

 (95) to fill the space under the doubling-box left vacant by 

 the removal of frames ; replace the super, and then return the 

 swarm to the parent hive by the entrance (76) . 



If the hive which swarmed had not been supered, but is to be 



99. Treatment of worked for extracting, and has been so 

 Swarm issuing from, far properly treated, and is therefore fit 



a Hive which it is for supering, act according to the instruc- 

 intended to work tions given in paragraph 120. 

 for Extracting. 



Casts are swarms which issue after a first swarm (12). If honey 

 production is the first consideration, they 

 100. Casts. should be suppressed as much as possible 



by adopting the treatment recommended in 

 paragraphs 13 , 95 , 96 ; but if the object is to produce swarms for 

 sale, the first cast or after-swarm may be taken, provided that 

 it issues before the middle of June in an early district, or the 

 middle of July in a late district, and provided that care is taken 

 later on, when the young queen is laying, to bring the parent 

 stock up to full strength for wintering, by judicious brood 

 spreading (90) and feeding (103) if necessary. The objection 

 to allowing casts to issue later than the dates named above is, 

 that there would be considerable likelihood that the young 

 queen of the parent stock would not be mated so late in the 

 season. If however, a mated queen is available in a nucleus 



