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old hive, shake or brush the bees from the comb on the 
sheet, and let an assistant sprinkle some of the solution 
on the bees, return the comb to its original hive, and 
having the new queen ready, take her by the wings, dip 
her in the solution, drop her among the bees on the 
sheet, and hive all back into the old original hive, con- 
taining the combs, in the manner of hiving a new natu- 
ral swarm. Care must be taken to guard against robber 
bees. 
To introduce an Italian queen to a colony of black 
bees in the common or box hive, drive out the bees as 
directed for forced swarming, and find their queen by 
making them travel over a sheet to a box ; if the queen 
is not seen the first time, they must be poured out again 
and the search repeated ; after the queen is found and 
destroyed, the Italian queen may be introduced by the 
second or third method, as explained above. 
If the queen is introduced on the third method, the 
combs must be examined in a week after she has been 
liberated, and all queen-cells started during her con- 
finement must be carefully cut out. 
If the queen is introduced in the spring, she may be 
given to the queenless part of an artificial swarm, or 
added to a natural swarm after finding and destroying 
its queen. 
