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On Rational Bee-Keeping. 
all left the super, carry it into a room, and place 
it in front of a window partly open. Those 
bees which still remain in the super will soon 
fly out and join their companions. 
As soon as the swarming and gathering 
seasons are over, the entrances to hives should 
be made smaller, as we have noticed before, in 
order to avoid the inroads of robber bees. 
If a hive has lost its queen in summer and 
before the disappearance of the drones^ and if it 
can be ascertained with certainty that the hive 
contains no more brood, take a piece of comb 
full of brood out of another hive, place it in 
the middle of the queenless hive, and in a fort- 
night a queen will be hatched out. Moreover, 
from the very moment of the introduction of 
the brood, the bees will resume the activity 
which they had lost for the time, unless indeed 
there already exists in the hive a queen who has 
not been impregnated early enough, and who 
only produces drones. In this case, the bees 
will not make new queens from the brood which 
has been introduced, and the hive will infallibly 
perish. If, however, the old queen be removed, 
they will immediately set to work to make 
royal cells over the eggs deposited in those of 
