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. Then there is another way of making new colonies about the time of the 

 early flow, or ten days before it commences, just in accord with the strength 

 of the colonies, when we want an increase as well as all the section honey we 

 can secure, as is often the case when a number of out-apiaries are to be 

 built out of the first one started. Let us suppose that it is from five to ten 

 days before the expected flow is to arrive, and that, in accord with this 

 plan, no upper stories have been put on. The bees have built up from the 

 extra honey We have allowed them at the outside of the hive until they are 

 in good shape, and the swarming season is drawing on. We now go to 

 hive No. 1 and take out the comb of brood on which we find the queen, 

 bees and all, unless this comb contains mostly maturing brood. If we find 

 her on such a frame of niaturing brood, the frames are looked over until 

 we find one which is only partly filled with eggs or larvae, when the queen 

 is put thereon; and this frame with the bees and queen is set aside till we 

 are ready for it. In this way we know right where the queen is, so we can 

 work rapidly without danger of losinig her whereabouts or injuring her. 

 All of the rest of the brood is left in the hive where it is ; and if the combs 

 are not all occupied with brood, those not so occupied are taken out, and 



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frames of brood are taken from some of the colonies which may be too 

 weak to work in sections during the season to advantage, and put in this 

 hive until it is filled with combs, every one of which has brood in it. We 

 now put on top of this hive of brood, still on its old stand, a queen-exclu- 

 der, and on this a second hive or upper story, as such a hive is generally 

 termed, when the frame of bees, brood, and queen which we set to one side 

 at the beginning, is placed in the CMiter of this upper story, the same being 

 filled out with frames of comb, a few of which should contain some little 

 honey, after which the hive is closed. Brood-rearing will now leap ahead 

 in this upper hive from the heat, and bees that come up from below to feed 

 the queen and encourage her on, while the bees can not swarm, as the queen 

 can not pass the excluder, so there is no need of any worrying on our part 

 for ten days. In from eight to eleven days, just as the weather will permit 

 (as no young queen will be likely to emerge from any queen-cells the bees 

 may rear from the brood in the lower hive previous to the eleventh day). 



