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than ten days— take out one of the frames with the queen from B, 
put it in an empty hive, C, and fill out C with empty combs or 
frames filled with foundation-starters. Take hive A from its 
stand and set hive C in its place. You will now make as many 
nuclei as you can from the brood and bees in A, taking two 
frames of brood and bees for each nucleus, putting each on a new 
stand. It may happen that without any intention on your part 
there will be one or more good queen-cells on one of the combs 
in each nucleus. It may be, however, that most of the queen-cells 
are on one or two combs, and you must cut out at least one good 
cell for each nucleus. You can fasten it on the comb by pushing 
over it a hive-staple. See that it is centrally located where the 
bees will be sure to keep it warm. A cell must also be given to B, 
and it will be well that this be given in a cage so that the bees 
cannot get at it for a day or two, lest they destroy it before they 
discover their queenlessness. The bees of the nuclei being queen- 
less, will remain pretty well where put, but you might fasten them 
it* for a day or two. 
Increase, Natural. — Q. I have 25 colonies of bees and want to 
increase to 50 next year and secure as much surplus honey as 
possible. How would you do this? We have plenty of white 
clover that begins blooming May 1, and blooms two months. 
A. There is, perhaps, no better way than to let each colony 
swarm once, moving the parent colony to a new location and 
hiving the swarm on the old stand. That will give a strong force 
to the swarm, which will do the principal storing, although the 
mother colony may store some if there is a late flow. 
Increase With Queen-Cells.— Q. Is it safe to form a colony by 
taking frames of sealed brood and queen-cells instead of queen? 
A. Very unsafe if no precaution whatever is used. For when 
you look a day or two later you are likely to find the bees mostly 
gone and the brood chilled. After putting the two frames with 
adhering bees in your nucleus hive, shake into it the bees from 
one or two more frames. Then see that your hive is closed bee- 
tight, so that not a bee can get out, for two or three days. It’s 
not a bad plan to stuff grass or green leaves into the entrance, 
plugging it tight and hard. The green stuff will dry and shrink, 
and in two or three days the bees will dig their way out. 
(If the weather is very hot, better keep this hive in the cellar 
during that time, as they might smother in the hive under the 
sun.— C. P. D.) 
