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remain quiet : otherwise uneasy, and run about, yrhen 

 it will be necessary to drive again. 



If both hives are one color, set the old one two feet 

 in front; but if of different colors, a little more. I 

 prefer this position to setting the old stock on one 

 side, even when there is room ; yet it can make but^ 

 little difference. Should you set it on one side, let the 

 distance be less. When the old stock is taken muoW 

 farther than this rule, all the bees that have rnarked 

 the location (and all the old ones will have done so) 

 will go back to the old stand, and none but young 

 bees that have never left home will remain. The same 

 will be the case with the new swarm if moved off. It; 

 will not do to depend on the old queen keeping them, 

 as she does when they swarm out naturally. This has 

 been my experience. Try it, reader, and be satisfied, 

 by putting either of the hives fifteen or twenty feet 

 distant. 



Before you turn over the old stock, look among the 

 combs as far as possible for queens' cells ; if any con- 

 tain eggs or larvae, you may safely risk their rearing 

 a queen; but otherwise wait till next morning, or at 

 least twenty-four hours, then go to a stock that has 

 cast a swarm, and obtain a finished royal cell, as be: 

 fore directed, and introduce it. You will have a 

 queen here as soon as if it had been left in the origi- 

 nal hive, and no risk of an after swarm, because there 

 is but one. But when there are young queens in the 

 cells at the time of driving, after swarms may issue. 

 Should a queen-cell be introduced immediately, it is 

 more liable to be destroyed than after waiting twenty*' 



