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With these in front of hive, we can keep the queen from 
leaving with a swarm. Occasionally, however, a queen 
will crowd through. By keeping empty frames and empty 
cells in the nuclei, the bees may be kept active; yet with 
so few bees, one cannot expect very much from the nuclei. 
After cutting all the queen-cells from our old hive, we can 
again insert eggs, as above suggested, and obtain another 
lot of cells, or, if we have a sufficient number, we can 
leave a single queen-cell, and this colony will soon be the 
happy possessor of a queen, and just as flourishing as if 
the even tenor of its ways had not been disturbed. If it 
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is preferred, the bees of this colony may be used in form- 
ing the nuclei, in which case there is no danger of getting 
a queen in any nucleus thus formed or of having the 
queen-cells destroyed. We can thus start seven or eight 
nuclei very quickly. Mr. Doolittle forms nuclei by dis- 
turbing the bees—jarring the hive—till they fill with 
honey, then shakes them into a hive or box and sets them 
in a dark room or cellar for twenty-four hours. Then 
they will always, he says, accept a queen-cell or a virgin 
queen of any age at once. A full colony may be safely 
re-queened in the same way. 
QUEEN LAMP NURSERY, 
This is substantially a tin hive, with two walls enclosing 
a water-tight space an inch wide, which, when in use, is 
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