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will be very quickly drawn out. It is extremely desir- 
able that these combs are either filled with brood to 
the top, or that the store over the brood be sealed. 
If they consist, in any part, of open honey-cells, these 
are often most annoyingly elongated, as at ec, Fig. 75 ; 
for, as honey is brought in, the cell-wall is made to 
grow, and so encroach upon the space the comb con- 
structed upon the foundation ought to occupy, the 
cell-mouths of the facing combs here only giving 
sufficient accommodation for a single layer of bees. 
The cell depth for larvae is a constant quantity — a 
bare -Jin. — and hence- always leaves the space for the 
foundation to be fully drawn out. As brood is extended, 
the temporary difficulty will work its own cure : the 
lengthened honey cells will be cut down, and the shallow 
ones deepened ; but this may be expedited by cutting 
back the excess, and placing the central comb of the 
Figure between other two. Inversion of the central 
frame, if eggs have been deposited beneath, will make 
the cure absolute from the beginning. The frames 
should be placed a full i^in. from centre to centre, 
whether foundation be given or not : in the latter case, 
the building of drone-comb will be thus checked. 
The last method of swarming of which anything 
need here be said is called sometimes “ nucleus- 
swarming,” and differs from the preceding, in that 
the bees are brought to the new queen, instead of 
the new queen being introduced to the bees. Small 
colonies are established, usually on one frame of 
brood and two of store, and to each of these a 
selected queen-cell is given. When the queen, 
having been fecundated, begins to lay, her colony, by 
