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duced by continual losses, and if the proper remedy is 
not applied by the bee-keeper, the existence of such a 
colony will soon be ended by robber-bees or the moths. 
All colonies that have swarmed, and all after-swarms 
should be occasionally looked at for about two 
weeks after swarming, and if any colony shows signs of 
being queenless the proper remedies should be applied 
at once. To Huber’s discoveries we owe the great step 
made in the successful management of bees. When he 
discovered and satisfactorily proved the fact that bees 
could raise a queen from any worker egg, or young 
larva in the hive, by altering the shape and position of the 
cell, and feeding the young bee on a different kind of 
food ; and that bees when they become queenless from 
any cause, have received the instinct to proceed instantly 
to supply her loss, by rearing a new queen from worker 
eggs or very young larva in worker-cells in the hive. 
If the swarms in moveable-comb hives are provided 
with combs containing brood, as above described, the 
loss of the queen will be remedied by the workers 
without any addition from the bee-keeper; but swarms 
in the common box hive or gum must be provided with 
brood, or, if possible, with a perfect queen-cell. To 
obtain a queen-cell, go to any stock that has cast a 
swarm riot over six days previous, proceed as described 
for examining for queen-cells, and with a sharp knife 
cut out a piece of comb containing a sealed or capped 
