FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



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ESCLUDEE PLAN OF TREATMENT. 



We find and cage the queen, destroy all queen-cells, remove 

 the hive from its stand, and put iu its place a hive containing 

 three or four frames of foundation. The foundation is on one 

 side of the hive with a dummy next to it. The rest of the hive 

 is left vacant. Upon this hive is put a queen-excluder, and over 

 the excluder the old hive with its brood and bees, and over this 

 the supers as before (Fig. 66). Then the queen is run in at 



Fig. 61 — Cutting Foundation. 



the entrance of the lower hive, and the colony is left for a week 

 or ten days. Ten days is safer. 



At the end of the week, or as soon after that time as we 

 can conveniently reach it we take away the lower story with its 

 excluder, and put back the queen in the old hive, which is left 

 on the stand. When we remove the lower story with its three or 

 four frames that a week before contained foundation, there will 

 be less advance made in those frames than you would be likely 

 to suppose. The vacant part will stiU be vacant, the amount of 

 honey will be very small, generally only one or two frames will 

 have been occupied by the queen, and possibly nothing beyond 



