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NUCLEUS SWARMING. 
in their new location. In place of the combs removed from ths 
parent stock, set in empty frames with a full one between. Ii 
the frames are put near the centre, the old stock will increase all 
the faster, as the queen will fill the new comb with eggs as fast 
as it is built. The removal of the two combs stimulates the 
bees to great activity by giving them room to work, and detaches 
just bees enough to prevent their clustering idly about the en- 
trance. The nucleus will construct quecn-cells and rear a queen 
as well as a whole swarm. Beside, the queen is easily found 
among so few bees. "We now wait until the tenth or eleventh 
day, from the time the nucleus was formed, when we open it, 
and, with a sharp thin bladed pocket-knife, cut out all the queen 
cells but one, and use them immediately in forming other nuclei, 
by attaching one of them to a frame ol 
comb and bees taken from an old stock, 
as before described, and placed in an 
empty hive. In transferring queen-cell; 
great care must be taken not to press 
or dent them, or expose them long to 
the hot sun or cool air for fear of de- 
stroying the royal occupants. The be- 
ginner should remove but one at a time, 
returning the frame from which it is 
taken to its place in the hive until the 
royal cell is adjusted in its new location 
When practicable, leave about an inch 
square of comb attached to the cell, and upon taking the comb oi 
brood from the old stock, make an opening among the eggs ant 
1?. Queen-cell Inserted. 
