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populous again before the young queens emerge. This plan does 
not make immediate use of the emerging bees but may be useful under 
some conditions. (3) If the honey flow is‘ of long duration or is 
followed closely by a second, two parent colonies, as in (2) above, 
may be placed upon the same stand, one of which is'given a queen 
but with the queen cells destroyed in the other. After two or three 
weeks the bees may be shaken from the queenless ‘colony in with the 
queen-right one. Such colonies are in excellent condition for rapid 
work in the supers. 
WHAT TO USE IN THE BROOD CHAMBER WHEN HIVING SWARMS. 
(1) The use of narrow strips of foundation 1 inch or less in width 
in the brood chamber offers some advantages. (a) When the brood 
chamber contains only these narrow ‘‘starters” and supers of partly 
filled sections are transferred from the parent colony to the new swarm 
at the time of hiving, there being no cells below in which to store the 
honey, it is taken to the supers. Under these conditions work in the 
brood chamber goes on slowly, the work of the colony being largely 
in the supers. - (6) Colonies that are thus required to construct a set 
of new combs in the brood chamber and that are supplied with suf- 
ficent storage room seldom attempt to swarm again during the same 
season, even though the flow be of long duration. (c) The treatment 
of brood diseases may be combined with swarm control. (See 
Farmers’ Bulletin No. 442, p.14.) The greatest objection to their use 
is in the excessive amount of drone comb usually built when anything 
- less than full sheets of foundation are used, especially if the queen is old 
or the brood chamber large in proportion to the size of the swarm. 
(2) The use of full sheets of foundation in the brood frames has 
the decided advantage of resulting in straight combs having the 
maximum number of cells of the worker size, but is more expensive 
than the narrow strips and allows a more rapid building of comb in 
the brood chamber, which under some conditions is considered a dis- 
advantage. 
(3) The exclusive use of either narrow strips or full sheets of 
foundation in the brood chamber when hiving swarms necessitates 
the use for a short time of a queen excluder (fig. 2) if the supers are 
transferred from the parent colony to the swarm at the time of 
hiving, since otherwise the queen would probably enter the sections 
and a brood nest be established there. To avoid the use of queen 
excluders for this purpose, one or more empty combs may: be used 
in each brood chamber, the remaining frames containing full sheets 
of foundation. This empty comb also serves as a storage place for 
pollen that may be gathered before the other combs of the brood 
chamber are constructed. Otherwise this pollen may be stored in 
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