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Fig. 8. — Creating conditions comparable to a s-warm. Plan 2 for extracted boney. 4, 

 Brood in. both lilve bodies In the spring. B, Supers S and k are added as more room is 

 needed, queen usually abandoning lower brood chamber (i). C, Queen placed below ex- 

 cluder in lower hive body (i) after all brood in this cliamber has been sealed. Empty 

 super (£) is added and brooa (!!) la placed, on top 



Fio. 9. — Creating conditions comparable to a swarm, but later comparable to a parent 

 colony. Plan 2 modified for comb honey. A, Brood in both stories In the spring. B, 

 Queen excluder Inserted 10 days previous to honey flow. O, Queen transferred to brood 

 chamber from which she has been excluded at beginning of honey flow. In the illustra- 

 tion it is assumed for convenience that the queen was confined to t when the excluder 

 was inserted, which is here shown at the right as a separate hive supplied with a ripe 



?ueen cell. The queen may have been confined to 1 instead, in which case she is trans- 

 erred to 18, which is left on the old stand, and the queen cell is given to 1, which is 

 placed at one side. D, The brood chamber containing the young queen (8) is substi- 

 tuted for the one containing the old queen (1) after the young queen has begun to lay 



put her into the lower hive body, and 

 confine her there by means of a 

 queen excluder (flg. 8, G). Place the 

 supers directly above the queen ex- 

 cluder and finally place the hive bodies 

 recently occupied by the queen on top 

 of the supers. Conditions now are 

 similar to those present when a swarm 



is hived on frames containing none 

 but emerging brood together with pol- 

 len and honey and the parent colony 

 is placed on top of the supers (p. 14). 

 Ten days later the queen cells that 

 have been built in the meantime usu- 

 ally should be destroyed, though this 

 is not always necessary (p. 15). 



