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Q. I am working ray bees for extracted honey exclusively, 
and use a three-story hive. Can I requeen my apiary by rearing 
young queens in the upper story by employing two queen-exclud- 
ing honey-boards, one over the brood-nest, and one under the 
top story in which the new queen stays? Of course, I must bore 
a hole in the back of the super from which the young queen can 
fly. Will I get rid of the nuisance of finding my young queen 
killed, or at least gone, when I take a notion to hunt out the old 
queen and decapitate her? 
A. Years ago I was delighted to succeed in the way you out- 
line, but of late years failures have been the rule, so I have given 
Fig. 24. — Queen-cells built on a comb specially prepared. 
it up. I don’t know what makes the difference, unless it be that 
originally the upper story with the young queen was more 
isolated. The farther up the top story, the better. Indeed, the 
first time I had a queen reared and laying in an upper story was 
an accident, and there was not even an excluder in the case. I 
put three or four stories of empty combs over a colony to have 
the bee9 take care of the combs, and in order to make the bees 
traverse the whole, I put some brood in the upper story — no ex- 
cluder anywhere. After some time I was surprised to find a young 
queen laying in the upper story. The bees had reared her from 
the brood, and it happened that there was a leak under the cover 
which she could fly through. In my later attempts there has not 
been so great isolation, and it might be worth while for me to 
