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removed, and in due time the young queen was laying. The 

 plan is a good one if one could only induce the bees to refrain 

 from swarming out until only one young queen is left in the 

 hive. I could not induce them to do that. 



REARING QUEEN IN " PUT-UP." 



It is not necessary to tell of all the plans that were tried. 

 One was finally hit upon that proved to be quite satisfactory, 

 so far as tried. When the presence of well-advanced queen-cells 



Fig. 59 — Brood of Laying Workers. 



showed that a colony was bent on swarming, all but one or two 

 frames of brood were taken from the hive and put in another 

 hive that was " put-up " on top, of course having no communi- 

 cation with the bees below. In the old hive below the old queen 

 was sometimes left, and sometimes the bees wei'e left without any 

 queen; but in either case care was taken that no queen-cell was 

 left below, and ten days later search was made for queen-cells 

 below, or else the brood was exchanged for brood from a colony 

 where there was no danger of queen-cells, and the old queen 

 was removed. To the " put-up " was given, at the time of put- 

 ting up, a virgin queen or a ripe queen-cell, and as soon as the 



