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As the brood in the frames transferred to the doubling-box 
hatches out, the bees will fill the vacated 
121. Further treatment cells with honey as soon as the honey flow 
of Stocks worked commences: brood frames need not be 
for Extracting. again placed in the doubling-box unless it 
it is desirable to do so in order to prevent 
swarming by the removal of such frames from the body-box of 
their own or any other stocks. The frames in the doubling-box 
should be examined on the sixth or seventh day after they were 
placed therein, and any queen cells found should be destroyed ; 
these queen cells will be found on the faces of the combs, where 
brood existed. The frames in the doubling-box may be kept 
close together, in which case it may by degrees be filled to carry 
ten frames if that is desirable; in any case they should be kept 
close together until after the first extracting : some bee-keepers 
prefer to space the frames in the doubling-box at two inches 
apart from centre to centre ; it will assist the beekeeper in thus 
spacing the frames and closing the spaces between the shoulders, 
to use a wooden spacing rack, as shown in Fig. 40; the reason 
for spreading the frames in the super to two inches apart, is to 
induce the bees to draw out the combs to the width of two-inch 
sections, but it may from time to time through the season be 
necessary to place them close together when returned after 
extracting, in order to permit of increasing the number of frames 
in the super, in which case it will of course be necessary to 
cut the combs down to their normal width before returning the 
frames to the doubling-box. Ifthe frames placed in the doubling 
box carried drone brood, the jhole in the doubling box (81) 
should be opened for one to two hours, two or three times weekly, 
until the drones have passed out. 
It is best that the frames should be completely sealed over 
before extracting, but it may often be 
122. Removal of advisable to remove frames on either side 
Frames for of which from one-fourth to one-third of 
Extracting. the cells are unsealed, in order to provide 
more space, or to make up a sufficient quan- 
tity for extracting, or to permit of transferring frames from 
other hives. Frames which have less than about two-thirds of 
the comb on each side sealed, should not be removed for extract- 
ing. When it is believed that some frames are ready for removal 
from the doubling-box, the beekeeper should examine them, 
removing the quilt from the back frames, and putting the sub- 
duing-cloth (65) on instead; if these frames are not ready, 
the front frames need not be examined; if they are ready, 
remove the quilt entirely, cover the frames with the subduing - 
cloth, letting it lie until the bees have gone down, and then re- 
move all frames fit for extracting, first’shaking the bees off them 
with a sharp jerk, or brushing them off with a feather, and place 
the frames in the frame-box (58) for removal to the extracting 
room, taking care to close the lid of the box at once as each frame 
is placed in it, to prevent robbing (141). On the first occasion 
