HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



find in the queen cells in the top body, un- 

 less they are of a good strain of bees that 

 you care to breed from, for they frequently 

 start the rearing of queens above the ex- 

 cluder very soon after their queen has been 

 placed below the excluder. If so, you had 

 better separate them at once; but if they 

 have not started any queen cells above, then 

 leave them together ten or eleven days, dur- 

 ing which time the queen will get a fine 

 lot of brood started in the lower hive, and 

 every egg and particle of larva that was in the 

 old hive on top will have matured, so it will 

 be capped over and saved; then separate 

 them, putting the old hive on a new stand. 

 It will then be full of young bees mostly, and 

 capped brood, and in about twenty-four hours 

 they will accept a ripe cell, a virgin, or laying 

 queen, as they will then realize that they are 

 hopelessly queenless. I would advise you to 

 give them a laying queen, as I never like to 

 keep my full colonies for even a day longer 

 without a laying queen than I can help. In 



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