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RECEPTION OF 
If eighteen hours elapse before sub¬ 
stitution of a stranger queen, she is 
at first treated in the same manner; 
however, the surrounding cluster is 
not so close, and the queen is at last 
liberated. If twenty-four hours elapse 
before her substitution, she will be 
well received* and reign from the mo¬ 
ment she is introduced into the hive, 
and if the bees have begun royal cells, 
they immediately discontinue them. 
chap. v. 
RAISING A QUEEN, 
When bees lose their queen, and 
several worker’s worms are preserved 
