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the queen-cells’and also to permit the easy transfer of 
the latter. On the same day, another colony may be 
deprived of its queen, and five days later, the queen- 
cells cut out and a comb taken from the pure colony, 
and prepared as above directed. The pure colony 
should be provided with empty comb, and fed daily, to 
promote breeding. The forming and stocking of the 
nucleus boxes should next be considered. If one or 
more stocks of bees can be obtained from a distance — 
not less than two miles — it is by far the better way. 
One week after the first queenless colony has received 
the comb from the pure stock, bring the stock to you. 
apiary, and before they are allowed to fly and mark 
their new location, transfer them at once to the nucleus 
hives, giving each hive one frame of brood and one of 
honey; insert and give each hive at least one quart of 
the bees. Confine them to their hive, by fastening a 
piece of wire cloth over the entrance, so as to admit 
air ; fill one of the feeders with pure water and the 
other with honey, and set the hives away from the 
bees, scattering them along the shrubbery or under 
small trees. Near sundown of the following day, the 
entrance may be opened, and the bees allowed to fly. 
If bees cannot be obtained from a distance, the nucleus 
boxes may be stocked from any of your own colonies. 
In such a case, more bees have to be put with each nu- 
cleuses many of the old bees return to their old stand. 
Sec “ Nucleus Swarming ” and follow the directions 
given for forming the nu< he 
