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the bees are flying the thickest exchange places with these hives. Now, 

 put on a feeder, if honey is not plentiful in the flowers, and give them a 

 little each day, just sufficient to keep them working and the queen will 

 not be slow in filling all the available space with eggs, and this poor 

 stock will soon be in a flourishing condition, while the stock from which 

 the queen was taken will at once proceed to rear another by constructing 

 queen cells . In ten days from the time the queen was removed, these 

 cells will be ready to hatch, and as but one can be utilized by this stock 

 the others may be profitably used in building up stocks in the same 

 condition as the one just described, but in removing queen cells it is 

 always well to leave more than one so as to be sure of a queen in 

 case of any unforeseen occurrence. In all these operations good judg- 

 ment is of the highest importance in order to discriminate between 

 the different methods and select the one best applicable to the case in 

 hand. 



