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ing all queen-cells in the "put-up," but that would make 

 more work, and if there are few enouugh bees all superf- 



Fig, SO. — Top and Bottom Starters in Section. 



luous cells will be destroyed by the bees themselves, and 

 there will be no danger of swarming. 



NUCLEUS TO PREVENT SWARMING. 



A modification of the plan sometimes used was to 

 take a nucleus from somewhere else and put in the place 

 of the colony. But in this case the colony was made 

 queenless two or three days in advance. Either plan 

 left the colony without any diminution of its forces, and 

 with no very great check to its work, and these plans 

 would probably have been continued to the present if it 

 had not been that I struck upon a plan that seemed 

 equally effective but quite a little easier. 



