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remain quiet: otherwise uneasy, and run about, when 
it will be necessary to drive again. 
If both hives are one color, set the old one two feet 
in front ; but if of different colors, a little more. I 
prefer this position to setting the old stock on one 
side, even when there is room ; yet it can make but 
little difference. Should you set it on one side, let the 
distance be less. When the old stock is taken much 
farther than this rule, all the bees that have marked 
the location (and all the old ones will have done so) 
will go back to the old stand, and none but young 
bees that have never left home will remain. The same 
will be the case with the new swarm if moved off. It 
will not do to depend on the old queen keeping them, 
as she does when they swarm out naturally. This has 
been my experience. Try it, reader, and be satisfied, 
by putting either of the hives fifteen or twenty feet 
distant. 
Before you turn over the old stock, look among the 
combs as far as possible for queens’ cells ; if any con- 
tain eggs or larvse, you may safely risk their rearing 
a queen ; but otherwise wait till next morning, or at 
least twenty-four hours, then go to a stock that has 
cast a swarm, and obtain a finished royal cell, as be- 
fore directed, and introduce it. You will have a 
queen here as soon as if it had been left in the origi- 
nal hive, and no risk of an after swarm, because there 
is but one. But when there are young queens in the 
cells at the time of driving, after swarms may issue. 
Should a queen-cell be introduced immediately, it is 
more liable to be destroyed than after waiting twenty- 
