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try again. At any rate, it is worth your while to try it, keeping 
in mind to have your upper story high up. 
Q. I am thinking of re-queening by allowing a queen to be 
reared above the excluder and then allow her to come back and 
enter the hive below after she is fertilized. Will she kill the old 
queen, or be killed? If you think this is not a good plan, what 
would you advise? 
A. If you should succeed in getting a queen reared and she 
should return from her wedding trip, it is uncertain which queen 
would be killed. 
Q. This year we had only one colony out of nine that stored 
any surplus honey; they were Italians in an 8-frame hive. Next 
year we would like to make some increase from this colony, as 
we have plenty of extra combs and hives. 
About swarming time, if I remove the queen from this colony, 
in a few days there will likely be a good many queen-cells started. 
Now, if there happens to be cells on each frame, could I make 
eight nuclei from it by taking one frame of bees and then take a 
frame of hatching-brood and bees from some other hive, and per- 
haps a frame of honey, and fill up the hive with drawn combs? 
Q. Yes, your scheme will work. If the cells should happen 
to be all on one or two combs, you can cut out a cell and fasten 
it on another comb by pinning over it a hive-staple. When you 
take the extra frame of brood and bees from some other colony, 
shake into your nucleus the bees from one or two more of the 
frames, since a good many will return to their old home. Or, to 
prevent returning, you may fasten the bees in the nucleus for two 
or three days. 
Q. How may I rear choice queens on a small scale? 
A. I will give one plan that should give you the best of queens. 
Of course, if you rear choice queens you must have a choice queen 
from which to rear them. The colony containing this queen 
should be built up strong, if necessary, by the addition of brood 
and bees from other colonics, so that it shall be the first to swarm. 
About eight days after it swarms there should be a fine lot of 
queen-cells that you can utilize to the best advantage. The more 
nearly mature they are the better, but if left too late there is 
danger that some of them may be torn down by the bees. If you 
are willing to take the trouble, there is a plan by which you may 
have them fully mature. When the colony swarms, hive the 
swarm on a new stand, leaving the mother colony comparatively 
strong. You might even return some of the bees of the swarm to 
the old hive. Beginning about a week after the issuing of the 
