250 MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
The old hive should now be turned right side up and moved 
some distance away. Allow it to remain here for 21 days, 
when all of the brood will have hatched and emerged as young 
bees. These are to be drummed as before and united with the new 
hive, first, thoroughly smoking both hives to prevent fighting. If the 
first or old queen is the one desired, the entrance of the new hive 
should have a piece of queen excluding zinc fastened at the entrance 
. Fig. 12—Drumming bees from old hive. 
to exclude the young queens. The plan generally followed, however, 
is to disregard the young queens, by allowing them to enter and the 
bees to determine the choice of queen. Old combs will usually be 
found to be so crooked, or so old and black, that they are fit only to be 
cut out and rendered into wax. They can be saved, however, by cut- 
ting out the more regular portions and fitting them into empty frames, 
securing them by passing cord or rubber bands around the frame, after 
