Methods of Dividing. 259° 
of foundation. These last may be all placed at one end, 
or placed between the others, though not so as to greatly 
divide brood. The new colony will have eight frames of 
brood, comb, etc., three from the nucleus and five from 
the old colony, a young laying queen, plenty of bees, those 
of the previous nucleus and the young bees from the old 
colony, and will work with a surprising vigor, often even 
eclipsing the old colony. 
If the apiarist has several colonies, it is better to make 
the new colony from several old colonies, as follows: Take 
one frame of brood comb from each of six old colonies, or 
two from each of three, and carry them, bees and all, and 
. place with the nucleus. Be sure that no queen ts removed. 
Fill all the hives with empty combs, or foundation, as 
before. In this way we increase without in the least dis- 
turbing any of the colonies, and may add a colony every 
day or two, or perhaps several, depending on the size of our 
apiary, and can thus almost always, so experience says, pre- 
vent swarming. 
By taking only brood that is all capped, we can safely 
add one or two frames to each nucleus every week, with- 
out adding any bees, as there would be no danger of loss 
by chilling the brood. In this way, as we remove no 
bees, we have to spend no time in looking for the queen, 
and may build up our nuclei into full stocks, and keep back 
the swarming impulse with great facility. 
These are unquestionably the best methods to divide, 
‘and so I will not complicate the subject by detailing others. 
The only objection that can be urged against them, and 
even this does not apply to the last, is that we must seek 
out the queen in each hive, or at least be sure that we do 
not remove her, though this is by no means so tedious if 
we have Italians or other races of yellow bees, as of course 
we all will. I might give other methods which would 
render unnecessary this caution, but they are to my mind 
inferior, and not to be recommended. If we proceed as 
above described, the bees will seldom prepare to swarm at 
‘all, and if they do they will be discovered in the act, by 
such frequent examinations, and the work may be cut 
short by at once dividing such colonies, as first explained, 
