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necessary that the beekeeper be present when the swarm 
issues, or soon after, and they are therefore not suitable for 
out-apiary management. 
Disposition of the brood after swarming. 
The so-called parent colony may be sufficiently populous to 
cast an after-swarm and should therefore be managed so as to 
prevent this and also so that the emerging bees shall be useful, 
especially if the honey-flow will probably be of long duration. 
The parent colony may be broken up at once by the dis¬ 
tribution of the brood to other colonies, while the adhering 
bees are added to the swarm. Another method is to destroy 
all queen cells except one and to allow the parent colony to 
remain intact. If the parent colony is left to requeen itself 
by the emergence of the developing queens, it often casts 
an after-swarm, so it is safer either to remove all queen 
cells except one or to remove them all and give a laying 
queen or virgin queen. 
Still another method is to reduce the population of the 
parent colony just before the young 
queens emerge and to add the emerging 
bees to the swarm. If the parent colony 
is put back beside the swarm after the 
swarm is hived, 
is left there for 
a week and is 
then removed to 
a new location, 
it is so reduced 
when the virgin 
queens emerge 
that an after¬ 
swarm is not cast. A modification 
of this method to be preferred 
when the clipping of queens is prac¬ 
ticed or when the queen trap is used is to set the parent 
colony to one side with its entrance about 90° from its former 
Fig. 112. — Manipulation to 
reduce population of par¬ 
ent colony — second po¬ 
sition. Parent colony is 
now in hive without supers. 
Fig. 111. — Manipula¬ 
tion to reduce popu¬ 
lation of parent 
colony — first posi¬ 
tion. Previous to 
swarming. 
