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swarm may result when the first young queen emerges from 

 her cell. Much depends on the season of the year and the 

 strength o-f colony. 



It is better if the bee-keeper attends to requeening his yard 

 each autumn or late summer at the close of the honey flow, 

 replacing all poor queens and all queens which have passed 

 their second season, unless they are known to have sufficient 

 merit to warrant giving them another season. Queens may be 

 purchased from any breeders of queens, in different parts of the 

 country. Their advertisements may be found in any number 

 of " The Bee Journals," or they can be reared in the home yard 

 with a little experience and study. These should be reared 

 from the best stock in the yard and careful selection practiced. 

 If queens are purchased and the instructions for introducing, 

 which accoimpany each queen, is carefully followed, there will 

 be no trouble as a rule, though occasionally a queen may be 

 lost. 



Fig. 2>6. — ^Miller queen introdU'Cing cage 



When weather is cold, a safe way is to remove a few frames 

 of hatching brood from the colony to be requeened, brush all 

 bees off the combs, place comhs in an upper story, find and 

 destroy the old queen, cover frames with a wire cloth and set 

 upper story over with brood frames in center, tucking in snug 

 and warm, after the new queen has been released on the comb 

 of brood in the upper story. In three or four days, a hole 

 should be made through center of screen disturbing the bees 

 as little as (possible, and they will unite quietly. If weather 

 is warm enough so that the brood will not ohill, the combs of 

 brood may be placed in an extra hive body, closing it so 

 that no bees can escape but letting in air enough so that the 

 bees will not smother and queen be released. On the third or 

 fourth day the hive entrance should be opened and bees allowed 

 to fly out. 



