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artificial queens. if all the artificial queens are taken away before they
are hatched, brood comb may be given under
tumblers, for rearing more in a way 
most suitable to be taken away. if this
colony grows too week they must be strengthened by having
[illegible] with these sealed over given to them. a hive thus
managed might be made to furnish artificial queens for the queen palace
so that the [illegible] fertile queens might be taken away at once
and their place supplied with artificial queens, which would [illegible]
become fertile, to be taken away in turn etc etc 
after they have laid enough to keep up the number in the
small swarms in the queen palace. if i found after
deciding that the queen was in that part which was strengthened
would determine the most brood bees to fly to the queenless part. 
this spot at all events to have the most bees. 
queen palace. let the hive be just the same as the other hives, having 12 frames. 
this will answer for four small swarms, to be used for rearing
queens. late in the fall transfer to it from small colonies, be careful to give them
sufficient honey and in good combs for breeding, set them where they will be quiet and
give them all [illegible] protection against cold. if there are no small swarms in the
fall, in the spring of hive may be divided into 4, or such a quadruple hive maybe
made by taking combs and bees from other hives shutting them up until they begin to rear
queens. this should be done as early as may be. from these colonies take all the queens as soon
as they are sealed except one from each, as soon as the new queens have filled the comb with eggs
remove them to form artificial swarms. if others just ready to hatch can at once be queen 
them, they will soon have fertile queens to be used again. the ability to supply
fertile queens or at least queens just ready to hatch will enable the apiarian to multiply 
his colonies to a wonderful degree. the matter must be so managed that the queen 
rearing in the four colonies will be of different ages. 



