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brood, but with plenty of sealed brood, some of it just emerg- 

 ing, and then closing the hive bee-tight put it where there is no 

 danger of the brood being chilled. One way to do this is to put 

 it over a strong colony, wire cloth preventing the passage of 

 the bees from one hive to the other. At the end of five days the 

 hive can be set on its own stand, and these flve-day-old bees, 

 under stress of necessity, will soon be seen carrying in pollen. 



Fig. S9 — Conih for Queen-Cells, Trimmed. 



ARTIFICIAL INCREASE. 



Fighting so bitterly against all increase by swarming, I 

 would run out of bees entirely if I did not resort to ai'tificial 

 increase. Without pretending to give all the ways by which 

 increase has been made, I may tell just a little about it. 



One can make increase by drawing brood or bees, or both, 

 from colonies that are working for honey, and thus keep all the 

 old colonies storing, and at the same time make the desired in- 

 crease. In that way the largest nundier of colonies possible 

 are kept at work on the harvest, and one might have a feeling 

 that all the increase was clear gain. But the feeling is a de- 

 lusive one. It is not the number of colonies at work storing. 



