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put them in a small miniature hive, six or eight 

 inches square, with movable frames, like those in 

 the central part of the Controllabe Hive. Keep 

 them shut in twenty-four hours ; then give them 

 their libeity, and they will work the same as a large 

 swarm through the summer ; but will not winter. 

 If such queens are known to be very old, it is best 

 to destroy them when we take them from the swarm. 

 Keef only young\ vigorous queens r\ The bees in 

 the hive from which you have taken the queen, will 

 in nearly every instance, construct queen cells im- 

 mediately to replace the loss of their queen. At 

 the earliest possible moment, they seem to sense 

 fully their loss, and to know that if they do not get 

 another queen at once, their loss is irreparable. 

 They usually vi^ill construct a number of cells, per- 

 haps a half dozen or more. These will hatch in 

 about ten days, and then swarms will issue.* 



If you wish to devote but little time to your bees, 

 and are not particular as to the time of swarming, 

 and wish to have but very few swarms, or perhaps 

 none at all, early in the spring, as soon as the bees 

 commence their work, put on the boxes (sides and 

 top,) and give the bees access to them ; side boxes 

 first, top boxes later. By this course, but a very 

 small proportion of your stocks will swarm, (if this 

 plan is to be practiced each year, it will be neces- 

 sary to replace the old queens with young ones, 



^Should any stock fail to Bwarm within two weeks from the time the 

 queen is removed, at the end of that time, examine such stock, and if 

 they have no qneen, they must be furnished with one. Aboub one stock 

 intwtnty, deprived of its queen as directed, will fail to rear queens. 



