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be worked in with the standard-frame super 
method described in the earlier part of this 
chapter. If this course be adopted the pro- 
cedure is as follows. 
The hive should be allowed to come to 
swarming-point in order that queen cells may 
be formed by the bees. These should contain 
eggs or larve before the frames are transferred 
to the super, and all eggs or larve should be of 
the same age. This is an important point, for 
should one be hatched earlier than the others 
it will promptly destroy all the other queen 
eggs or larve in the frame. The wisest plan 
is to destroy all queen cells that are capped 
and the ages of eggs or larve noted in accord- 
ance with the information given on this point 
on page 13. 
In working this method of queen-rearing, 
the frames must not be shaken, but the bees 
brushed off into the hive, otherwise the con- 
tents of the queen cells will be displaced. 
The zinc excluder, of course, must be 
thoroughly applied to prevent the queen 
obtaining access to the super. 
The super can be left until the day pre- 
vious to that on which the first young queen 
is due to leave the cell. It must then be re- 
moved, with all the bees in it, and it should 
