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workers. These new cells, together with the 
special food on which the brood is fed, will 
convert what would have been an ordinary 
worker bee into a queen. 
If a worker bee begins to deposit eggs in the 
cells, which often happens in a hive where there 
is no queen, all the bees should be brushed into 
an empty hive at a distance of fifty paces from 
the bee-house. They will return to the hive 
which has been put in the place of the one which 
was removed, and will at once receive the queen 
presented to them, or will make a new queen if 
they are provided with brood not more than 
four days old. 
If, in the autumn or spring, it is noticed that 
bees hitherto industrious have ceased from work- 
ing, it is a sure sign that the queen is no longer 
there. 
In this case, to prevent the robbing of the 
hive and the consequent loss of the colony, the 
weakest stock in which there is a queen should 
be placed either above or below the hive. The 
colony will then continue to work with redoubled 
vigour. We repeat, however, for the third time, 
that in a case of this kind it is necessary to 
sprinkle some honey or syrup over the bees in 
