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not be permitted to finish the cells, but they are 

 taken away and placed in the middle of another 

 hive which occupies two stories, with the queen 

 in the lower story and an excluder between to 



Fig. 16. — The queen excluder prevents the queen from passing into 

 the super. The workers being smaller readily pass through the 

 openings. 



keep her from going above and destroying the 

 cells which are placed in the upper story (Fig. 

 16) . The first colony is then given another lot 

 of cells to start. Only sti'ong colonies should 

 be used for cell starting or finishing, since the 

 best queens are not produced in small colonies. 

 Latee Treatment. — While the worker 

 bees require twenty-one days for development 



