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either be split up or each queen caged in its 
cell. 
After the super is split up, the bee-keeper 
should try to procure a swarm to divide 
amongst each part of the super—first running 
it through a queen excluder to catch the 
queen. These divisions should be given a 
separate hive if possible, but if it is necessary 
that they should occupy one large hive care 
must be taken thoroughly to separate each 
section and to have the entrances as far apart 
as possible. It is advisable, too, that the en- 
trances should be of a different colour to 
ensure the young queens entering their 
own section, for should they by chance enter 
another a battle is sure to ensue with fatal 
results. 
Re-queening the Hive.—As already stated, 
the method of working the hive with standard 
frames as a super necessitates re-queening every 
two years. There are several ways of doing 
this. One is to find the old queen and kill her, 
and allow the bees to install one of the young 
queens. This method, however, has many dis- 
advantages. First of all, there is the disturbance 
to the hive in the search for the queen; 
secondly, if the queen be found and killed, 
there is a loss of nearly three weeks in the 
