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and water should be given. In the course of a few 

 days a queen-cell, or cells, will be formed, worker- 

 eggs transferred into them, and these, in process of 

 time, will come forth as princesses. When fertilised 

 they will be ready for using in other hives. 



A third method is to set a small empty hive over 

 a full stock, and, when the bees using the entrance of 



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Fig. 64. — Queen Cage over Sealed Cell. 



the upper one are sufficiently numerous, a brood- 

 comb with eggs and adhering bees may be placed 

 in the top hive. Then, in a day or two, the aperture 

 between the two may be closed, and the nucleus 

 being removed, another can be put in its place, and 

 the process repeated till as many queens as are 

 required have been raised. 



Fourthly. Two or three combs with brood and 

 honey may be taken from a hive, and having cut 

 out a nearly triangular piece of comb, a queen- 

 cell with comb, nearly equal in size to the hole, may 



