Appendix. 
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Whichever compartment contains no queen will 
shortly rear a great number. On the eleventh day 
after the division, remove all the combs containing 
royal cells, leaving two cells only on each piece of 
comb. Place each one of these in small hives, styled 
in England nucleus boxes, in which two pieces of 
comb containing brood have been fixed two days 
previously, with the bees which may have been 
attached to them. 
When the Italian queen is at least two days old, the 
small hive, or nucleus box, should be removed for a 
day or two to a cellar or dark room, giving due care 
to insure ample ventilation. On the fourth day of 
the queen^s existence, feed the bees with some syrup 
or liquid honey, and place them in the bee-house at 
nine o’clock in the morning. The drones and queens 
in these hives will take flight before the drones from 
the ordinary hives, and the queens, meeting only 
with Italian drones, will almost surely be fertilized 
by them. 
As to the method of introducing Italian queens into 
a hive, it is necessary first to take away the existing 
queen, and leave the bees of that hive without a 
queen for two days. After destroying all the royal 
cells which are in process of formation, the new queen 
must be shut up in a wire cage and introduced into 
the hive in this manner, in order to accustom the 
bees to her presence. The following day, she can be 
set free, care being taken, however, to observe the 
attitude of the bees towards her. If she is attacked 
