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pint of bees, and put them in a small miniature hive, six 
or eight inches square, with moveable frames, like those 
in the central part of the Controllable Hive. Keep 
them shut in twenty-four hours; then give them their 
liberty, and they will work the same as a large swarm 
through the summer; but will not winter. If such 
queens are known to be very old, it is best to destroy 
them when we take them from the swarm. Keep 
only young, vigorous queens!] The bees in the hive 
from which you have taken the queen will in nearly 
every instance construct queen cells immediately to 
replace the loss of their queen. At the earliest possible 
moment, they seem to sense fully their loss, and to know 
that if they do not get another queen at once, their loss 
is irreparable. They usually will construct a number of 
cells, perhaps a half dozen or more. These will hatch in 
about ten days, and then swarms will issue.* 
If you wish to devote but little time to your bees, and 
are not particular as to the time of swarming, and wish 
to have but very few swarms, or perhaps none at all, 
early in the spring, as soon as the bees commence their 
work, put on the boxes (sides and top) and give the bees 
access to them; side boxes first, top boxes later. By 
this course, but a very small proportion of your stock 
will swarm, (if this plan is to be practiced each year, it 
will be necessary to replace the old queens with young 
*Should any stock fail to swarm within two weeks from the time the 
queen is removed, at the end of that time, examine such stock, and if they 
have no queen, they must be furnished with one. About one stock in 
twenty, deprived of its queen as directed, will fail to rear queens. 
