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Securing control over breeding is not the only advantage gained by 

 a free use of comb-foundation. For instance, a fair swarm of, say, 

 5 lb. weight hived upon ten sheets of comb-foundation will have in 

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workecl out and a goodly number of eggs deposited in the cells, and in 

 forty-eight hours the queen can henceforward lay to her full extent. 

 In from a week to nine days (depending upon the weather) the whole 

 ten sheets will be worked out into worker-combs and a great deal 



