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poplar and joined the others. Then I was 

 convinced that the bees I first found in the 

 poplar tree were my runaways. 



Bear in mind that it was 10 or II o'clock 

 when the first swarm left, and 2 or 8 o'clock 

 when the others joined them, making from 4 

 to 6 hours between the leaving of the first and 

 the second lot of Ijees. 



Now, then, here is an instance which con- 

 tradicts t^oth theories, one about ijees first 

 clustering to let the queen rest, and the one in 

 regard to their selecting their future home 

 before swarming, as one-half of the swarm 

 clustered and the other half ■• lit uul " without 

 clustering. 



My opinion on the subject, based on my 

 own experience and what I have read, is, that 

 whenever they do select their future home it 

 is before swarming: Ijut I think they very 

 frequently issue without having selected a 

 home. My experience has Ijeen that about 

 one swarm out of every 2.5 leaves without 

 clustering. A friend of mine, some distance 

 from me, tells me that his bees acted very 

 strangely this year, nearly every other swarm 

 leaving without clustering at all. 



Mr. Raymond says — or at least we are to 

 infer that he says — that the virgin queens can 

 and do always fly without having to rest, and 

 that it is the old queen that the swarm has to 

 give time to rest. 1 had supposed from my 

 own experience that just the reverse was 

 true, for I have frequently found a young 

 queen trying to fly and join an after-swarm. 

 Sometimes they could not rise, and I have 

 occasionally picked them up and either put 

 them back into the hive or into a bottle until 

 I could hive the swarm, and I would release 

 the queen as the bees were going in. But I 

 do not remember ever seeing a prime swarm 

 W'ith a tjueen that had to be assisted or cared 

 for. One thing is certain, and that is, that 

 with each prime swarm there is an old or fer- 

 tile queen, and with after-swarms there is a 

 young and unfertile queen. I have frequently 

 found such a queen hopping about in front 

 of the hive trying to fly, and have returned 

 her to the original hive. There is no telling 

 how many such queens get lost or destroyed, 

 for the hive is often too high for her to crawl 

 Imck to the entrance. 



As the sul)ject of prevention of swarming 

 seems to be an all-important one now among 

 bee-keepers, I would like to ask why it can 

 not be done in the following way : Whenever 

 an after-swarm issues, manage to catch the 

 queen and either bottle her up for use some- 

 where else, or destroy her, and return the 

 Ijees to the old hive, where they will be re- 

 ceived without any doubt. Does this not pre- 

 vent increase and swarming in a very simple 

 and practical way, as we know the bees will 

 not leave without a queen ? 



I notice that some writers claim it to be a 

 very simple thing to unite two small colonies 

 successfully where each has a queen, but I 

 have nut found it so. It is anything but sim- 

 lile and easy. Of course, I can do it, but they 

 go to fighting and killing each other, and that 

 1 dislike more than anything I know, unless 

 it lie to crush a lot of bees myself when work- 

 ing with them. 



I wish some experienced bee-keeper would 

 reply to this, and at the same time give the 



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