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season may be such that it will not be possible to have as 

 many as 8 brood in each hive. A colony strong enough 

 to have 6 frames well filled with brood is likely to be in 

 condition for good super-work, but the work will be better 

 if it has 7 or 8. On the other hand the season and the 

 early condition of the bees may be such that when each 

 colony is brought up or down to its 8 frames of brood, a 

 considerable surplus of brood may be left. 



DISPOSAL OF EXTRA BROOD. 



Circumstances will decide what shall be done with 

 this extra brood. It may be needed for building up nuclei, 

 or for new colonies. It may be piled up temporarily in 

 piles of three, four, or five stories each, to be used later 



Fill. 42. — Hive-Dummy. 



in any manner desired. It does not take three times as 

 many bees to care for the brood in three stories as it does 



