BEE CULTURE, 151 
three more brood frames to each, from the hive removed from 
there, place two frames of foundation or empty combs in the 
center of these, put a division-board on the outside of the 
combs, and close the hives. The hives from which these 
were taken will each be left with six brood frames ; to these 
add two empty combs or sheets of foundation, put in division 
boards at the outsides, and close for twenty-four or thirty-six 
hours. You now have four new colonies with queens, four 
without queens, and one with queen cells. 
At the end of twenty-four hours you will find queen cells 
started, or preparations to start them, in the four queenless 
Fie. 108.—Breod Comb with Queen Cell Engrafted. 
colonies. With a sharp, narrow-bladed knife, cut out four 
of the best queen cells from No. 1, leaving a good one; cut a 
triangular hole, about one-and-a-half inches across, from the 
center of a brood frame in each of the queenless colonies, and 
slip in a queen cell. These should fit pretty tightly, so they 
will not drop out (fig. 108). Observe great care not to bruise 
any of them, and they must not be cut so lose to the cell as 
to run a chance of injuring the young queen yet in the cell. 
In a few days these young queens will be hatched, mated and 
laying, and you now have nine colonies. As fast as the 
foundation in these colonies is drawn out, the comb can be 
spread and new foundation or combs added, until the full 
