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the new brood chamber. The young bees as they learn to fly are 
added to the swarm by the same device. Otherwise the manipula- 
tion is the same as the other methods described. 
SEPARATING THE QUEEN AND BROOD WITHIN THE HIVE. 
In some swarm-control methods neither the queen nor the brood 
is removed from the hive, but these are temporarily separated within 
the hive. These methods are ordinarily used only on colonies 
making preparations to swarm and are practically equivalent to the 
‘dequeening plan. The following methods make use of this principle 
of swarm control: 
(1) The queen may be placed in a wire-cloth cage within the hive 
or may be confined to a small comb surface within the brood 
chamber by means of queen-excluding zinc. No queen cells are per- 
mitted to mature, and the queen is liberated after 10 to 15 days. 
(2) The queen together with a comb containing a small amount of 
brood is placed in a lower hive body containing no other frames or 
combs. After destroying all queen cells the brood is placed in a 
second hive body, the two hive bodies being separated by a queen- 
excluding honey board and the supers adjusted above the brood 
as before. The queen, being separated from the brood by means of 
the excluder, lays few eggs in the comb on which she is confined | 
during this period of separation. After a week or 10 days the queen 
cells are again destroyed, and the brood and queen are put back into 
a single hive body as before. This method gives results quite similar 
to the dequeening method (p. 35). 
If every season were alike in a given locality the beekeeper could 
work out a manipulation to be applied to each colony just before or 
at the beginning of the honey flow, which would result in practically 
no swarming. The wide variation in the seasons, however, renders 
it next to impossible to adopt a swarm-control measure that will 
prove most profitable every year. The means of control adopted 
must be such as to favor the domination of the storing instinct. 
Probably the plan of making weekly visits is the most widely used 
system of swarm control by manipulation. When a colony is found 
preparing to swarm, the brood is removed if conditions are such as 
to justify doing so (p. 37). Otherwise the removal of the queen is 
resorted to. 
With any of these methods of control the colony may rapidly 
restore former conditions, and even though it has been diverted from 
swarming may later again prepare to swarm and require a second 
manipulation. Generally speaking, when the honey flow is short, 
less radical measures are required. Colonies that have been supplied 
with young queens after a period of queenlessness have one factor 
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