Fill up the denuded hive with frames of foundation, and add the 

 extracting supers after three days, first transposing the outer frames of 

 least worked foundation to the centre, which will expediate the process 

 of completion and extension of the brood nest. 



The doubled lot of brood combs will lose all the adult workers that 

 return to the old site, and therefore will seldom require supers for a 

 week or ten days. 



Renewing the Queens. 



If both lots have old queens, it is desirable after two or three days to 

 make up two or three Nuclei by the side of the doubled lot moved to a 

 new site. Or make up one with three combs of bees, eggs, capped and 

 maturing brood, and when they have queen cells capped, divide into 

 three with a cell to each. The three will allow for possible loss of one 

 queen. 



When laying, a young queen can be given to the doubled swarm and 

 Stock, and the combs returned to the hive they came from. These 

 queens, reared in early summer, by young bees only, will equal those 

 reared by any more elaborate method. Queens purchased may save time. 



The old queens may for greater safety be removed three days before 

 giving the young ones ; making sure that no queen cells, developed in 

 the meantime, are allowed to mature after the exchange. 



Nothing but the vast populous colonies thus produced, will ever give 

 yields approaching two or three hundred pounds to the colony. 



200-lbs. to 300-lbs. per Colony 



is not by any means an impossible attainment for the painstaking 

 owner in an average season. Carefel Autumn preparation ; the right 

 class of Honey Bees ; and the simple control of swarming — jnst where 

 so many bee-owners get lost in a dense fog of mismanagement — will 

 ensure that coveted surplus of hundred-weights of golden treasure to 

 the colony. 



Hunting up Queen-cells 



once a week, as sometimes recommended, is a sadly crude, and needlessly 

 laborious process — to (stU it nothing worse — that no practical bee-keeper 

 should follow. Such methods are entirely avoided by Simmins' plans of 

 " Swarming without Increase," and " Combined Doubling and Swarming 

 without Increase ; " scientific methods that he first offered to bee-keepers 

 many years since as the only plaiB for securing immense, profitable 



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