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THE HIVE AND IIONILV-BEE. 
ing brood, eggs, and stores, are given to the forced swarm, 
it will be much encouraged, and will need no feeding, if 
the weather should be unfavorable. In removing the 
fiames, the bee-keeper should look for the queen, and give 
the comb on which she is, to the forced swarm, without 
shaking off the bees. If he does not see her on the 
combs, he will seldom fail to notice her, after a little prac- 
tice, as she is shaken on the sheet, and crawls towards the 
new hive. The queen is seldom left on a frame after it 
lias been shaken so that most of the bees fall off. As soon 
as the necessary number of bees have been transferred to 
the new hive, the precautions previously given must be 
used to obtain adhering bees for the parent-stock. 
If the proper allowance of bees is secured for the parent- 
stock by the method described on page 162 , the hive for 
the forced swarm may be placed at once on the old stand, 
and the bees from the parent-stock shaken from the frames 
upon a sheet, so placed that they can easily run into their 
new hive. 
If the forced swarms were made a short time before 
natural swarming would have taken place, some of the 
parent-stocks will contain a number of maturing queens, 
■which may be removed, a few days before hatching, and 
given to such as have started none. 
By making a few forced swarms, about a week or ten 
days before the time in which the most are to be made, 
there will be an abundance of sealed queens, almost ma- 
ture, so that every parent-stock may have one. If an un- 
hatched queen can be given, on her frame, to each stock 
that needs it, so much the better; but if there are not 
enough frames with sealed queens, while some contain two 
or more, the bee-keeper must proceed as follows: 
With a sharp pen-knife, carefully remove a piece of comb, 
an inch or more square, that contains a queen-cell ; and in 
