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the first swarm when it is desired to get as much honey as possible 
and no serious objection exists to forming a new stock. Firstly, 
it is the best known preventive of after swarms or “ casts ” (100) 
as all the bees which issue from the parent hive on the day alter 
swarming will return to the new hive, leaving the parent stock 
too weak in bees to allow casts to issue from it. Secondly, the 
bees in the new hive, having very little brood to feed, can for the 
next fourteen days devote themselves almost entirely to honey 
collecting. On the following day all queen cells (9) except the 
two best should be removed from the combs of the parent hive, 
if possible leaving two good cells of different ages, one capped, 
the other uncapped ; or a mated queen, if one is available, may 
be introduced (158), in which case the queen cells should be 
removed. 
If the bee-keeper does not wish to increase the number of stocks 
; in the apiary, or has not a spare hive, the 
96. Alternative following modification of the procedure 
poeta oe just described (95) should be adopted. It 
‘ will be assumed that there are at least two 
increase of Stocks. . : 
or three bar-frame stocks in the apiary. 
Secure the swarm as already described (98). Then transfer all 
the frames in the parent hive into a suitable box in which they 
can be suspended and covered, keeping them’ in the order in 
which they hung in the old hive, and leaving a small aperture to 
serve as a door; this box should be placed close to the old hive 
so that flying bees may enter it. Then clean out the hive from 
which the frames have been removed, prepare it to receive 
the swarm and frames (75), and replace it on its stand. Now 
return to the old hive the front and back frames, replacing them 
in their original positions; then select the four frames having 
most capped brood and replace them in the parent hive, destroy 
all queen cells on frames thus returned, and also place one frame 
of foundation in the centre of the brood frames: the frames in 
the parent hive will accordingly be hung in the following order, 
viz. :— 
(1.) Front or pollen frame. 
(2 & 3.) Two frames of capped brood. 
(4.) One frame of foundation. 
(5 & 6.) Two frames of capped brood. 
(7.) One frame of honey (back frame). 
Next insert the dummy, press all frames forward into position, 
fit an extension board (95) behind the dummy and place super 
crates, as above explained (95) ; then brush all adhering bees off 
the frames remaining in the box, remove all queen cells from 
them, and distribute those which contain eggs or brood amongst 
the other hives in the apiary, if necessary withdrawing from such 
hives frames which contain honey or pollen only, so as to make 
room. The frames without brood should then be stored away 
for later use, placing them hanging as in a hive, in a dry place 
to which wasps and bees have not access. 
