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liave a strong- vigorous queen and a nice lit¬ 
tle satisfied swarm of bees, ready for busi¬ 
ness in the way of pulling foundation be¬ 
fore they are three weeks old. 
I have succeeded with 19 out of 20 divi¬ 
sions made in the above way, when I did not 
even see them until the third week, after 
dividing as above; and for the average bee¬ 
keeper who has out-apiaries I think there is 
no better way in the world to make in¬ 
crease. 
In the above method of increasing, you 
have no queens to buy, no robbers to bother 
with, and but little time lost, as an expert 
can make 20 divisions an hour. 
Navasota, Tex. 
In the first paragraph, Mr. Somerford 
mentions removing or caging the queen. It 
should be explained that usually any queen 
can be caged in her own hive for weeks at 
a time, and her bees will take care of her 
thru the wire cloth. If a queen is removed 
entirely it is implied that she is to be caged 
in another hive, or introduced. She may, 
however, be. put in a cage supplied with 
queen-cage candy, and kept for a week or 
ten days in a warm room. But there would 
be danger of losing her, as she might die, 
because, under artificial conditions, she can¬ 
not get the “balanced rations” that she 
needs to keep up her bodily functions. 
Another plan of making two colonies out 
of one is given under the head of Increase. 
For full consideration of the subject of 
Baby Nuclei, see Queen-rearing. 
A portion of Mr. Stewart’s apiary, Contra Costa County, Calif. 
