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in the centrifugal machine. Now we went back to 
the hive. Right in the centre the bee-master put 
a new, perfectly empty comb, and on each side of 
this came the four principal brood frames with the 
queen still on them. Outside of these again the 
combs from which we had extracted all the honey 
were brought into position. And then a rack of 
new sections was placed over all, and the hive 
quickly closed up. The entire process seemed the 
work of only a few minutes. 
“Now,” said the bee-master triumphantly, as he 
took up his barrow again, ‘‘ we have changed the 
whole aspect of affairs. The population of the 
hive is as big as ever; but instead of a house of 
plenty it is a house of dearth. The larder is empty, 
and the only cure for impending famine is hard 
work; and the bees will soon find that out and set 
to again. Moreover, the queen has now plenty of 
room for laying everywhere, and those exasper- 
ating prison-cradles, with her future rivals hatching 
in them, have been done away with. She has no 
further reason for flight, and the bees, having had 
all their preparations destroyed, have the best of 
reasons for keeping her. Above all, there is the 
new super-rack, greatly increasing the hive space, 
and they will be given a second and third rack, or 
even a fourth one, long before they feel the want 
of it. Every motive for swarming has been 
removed, and the result to the bee-master will 
probably be seventy or eighty pounds of surplus 
honey, instead of none at all, if the bees had been 
left to their old primeval ways.” 
‘““You must always remember, however,’’ he 
added, as a final word, “that bees do nothing 
