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munication between the apartments A and B at the point 8. 
This card of comb we /ean over a trifle, so that it shall re- 
main firmly in position, putting in place the movable front 
and slide so as to leave only the small opening, like that 
shown at a. We thus detach a small portion of the bees 
from the parent stock, A, for the purpose of rearing 
queens, which they will immediately set themselves about 
doing from the brood furnished them. Such of these bees 
as have been in the habit of using the hitherto empty 
apartment for a passage way, will remain, to be joined 
from day to day by numbers from the parent hive that 
have also used that apartment as a passage way ; while 
those we have transferred, that have been accustomed to 
use the direct outlet from A, will of course return thither. 
We thus secure only a comparatively small portion of the 
bees for the purpose of queen rearing, while the labors of 
the parent stock go on undisturbed. Indeed, the old hive 
will breed all the faster, for the reason that the vacant space 
Zr Jt ag. diately deposit eggs; while in the in- 
fy. cainy ie 4 fant colony no combs are constructed 
NO ex at all, because the bees have enough 
= already. The tenth day after starting 
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as 
m, the queen cluster, if no royal cells 
EZ had been begun when the comb was 
Ph a (a 
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MWS © one of the queen cells, using these imme- 
= aon diately in starting other queen clus- 
= ters — attaching one of them to a 
21 -—Queen Cell Inserted. Gard of comb and bees (fig. 21), ta- 
ken frorn the hive C, and transferred to D, in the manner 
