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Unite the Parent Stock and Swarm 



with the young queen presiding. The united stock 

 should not have more than ten or eleven frames in all, 

 while the remainder of the broodless combs can be used 

 for extracting purposes. 



When more than one young queen may be desired^ 

 break up the removed combs into the necessary number 

 of nuclei with a queen cell to each on the eighth day 

 after swarming, and re-unite as soon as the queens can be 

 appropriated. 



, For obtaining one swarm from each stock, and in 

 desiring to 



Prevent After-swarms, 



proceed in the same way, except that the removed combs 

 and bees are to be placed at a distance from the old 

 position, and no uniting takes place. This plan of 

 obtaining one swarm and throwing the whole working 

 force with the same, while making it a certainty that the 

 other portion will cause no trouble was well known to, 

 and practised by, most of the old masters. In this case, 

 there is no time wasted in cutting out queen cells, an 

 operation that cannot be tolerated in a modern honey- 

 producing apiary. Should there be any fear of the bees 

 being strong enough to swarm again, a few more shaken 

 off with the new swarm will settle that matter. As soon 

 as the young queen, or one already on hand, has six or 

 seven combs crowded with brood, supers may be placed 

 on her hive also, at the same time giving two more empty 

 combs or foundation near the centre. Upon removal of 

 the sections there will probably be hardly an ounce of 

 honey in the stock combs, when another empty comb or 

 two must be inserted and feeding be followed up, so that 



