FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



moved, and in due time tlie young queen was laying. The plan 

 is a good one if one covdd only induce the bees to refrain from 

 swarming out until only one young queen is left in the hive. 

 I could not induce them to do that. 



REARING QUEENS IN "PUT-UP." 



It is not necessary to tell of all the plans that were tried. 

 One was finally hit upon that proved to be quite satisfactory, 

 so far as tried. When the presence of well-advanced queen- 



Fig. 50 — Brood of Laying Workers. 



cells showed that a colony was bent on swarming, all but one 

 or two frames of brood were taken from the hive and put in 

 another hive that was "put-up" on top, of course having no 

 communication with the bees below. In the old hive below the 

 old queen was sometimes left, and sometimes the bees were left 

 "\vithout any queen; but in either case care was taken that no 

 queen-cell was left below, and ten days later search was made 

 for queen-cells below, or else the brood was exchanged for 

 brood from a colony where tliere was no danger of queen-cells, 

 and the old queen was removed. To the "put-up" was given, 

 at the time of putting up, a virgin queen or a ripe queen-cell. 



