what hive gets the super during a split

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Still very new to all this and im a slow learner so bear with me please. Having found 3 queen cells ,all with lava and jelly and one tapering down looking like it is ready to be sealed and all on the bottom of the frames.With my limited knowledge and after a disaster last year with swarming i thought i had little option but to split them.
In my other hives today i found the queens while inspecting,but this one being a DB even though i went through three times i could not find her. So i adopted the wally shaw method (snelgrove) but unsure what hive gets the super i removed. Thank you.
 
Still very new to all this and im a slow learner so bear with me please. Having found 3 queen cells ,all with lava and jelly and one tapering down looking like it is ready to be sealed and all on the bottom of the frames.With my limited knowledge and after a disaster last year with swarming i thought i had little option but to split them.
In my other hives today i found the queens while inspecting,but this one being a DB even though i went through three times i could not find her. So i adopted the wally shaw method (snelgrove) but unsure what hive gets the super i removed. Thank you.

The box on the original location gets the super, as that is the box that the foragers will stay with

How many brood frames have you left in the box on the original stand? Obviously you need to be 100% sure there are no queen cells on them, right? Three queen cells would be an unusually low number for swarming (but I agree that you needed to split them)
 
Ok so the super goes on the new box on the original stand and i put two frames of brood lava and eggs also in the same box as Wally Shaw says.
I have a spare frame of stores from another hive that i can give them also tomorrow also.
I did not wish to do it this way ,but as i said i went through the hive three times and no siqhn of her and they were getting a bit fed up of me so i had no option. Thank you
 

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