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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAi^, 



boys some points. I have on two occa- 

 sions found two swarms so near tliat the 

 comb of one intersected that of the 

 other. But a pretty sight was a swarm 

 which had built four lines of comb, 4 

 inches deep by 2}>4 inches, and 10 feet 

 long, including brood and the lower end 

 of old comb. It was built between the 

 studding of a cheese-factory. 

 Bakersfield, Calif. W. 



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Sf arming Witliout Haying Bulll Cells. 



Query 906.— Bees often swarm ■without 

 queen-cells after the apiarist has cut them 

 out. but do they ever swarm without having 

 built queen-cells previously ?— Bee-man. 



Perhaps not. — Eugene Secor. 



Yes, but very rarely. — P. H. Elwood. 



Very, very rarely. — J. H. Larrabee. 



I don't know. Possibly not. — C. C. 

 Miller. 



Yes, but hardly ever. — Mrs. J. N. 

 Heater. 



Yes, sometimes, but not usually. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



Very seldom, unless they are starving. 

 — C. H. Dibbern. 



I have never had any do it that I 

 knew of. — J as. A. Stone. 



Yes, I have known them to do so 

 many times. — J. E. Pond. 



Yes, I have known thera to do so fre- 

 quently.— James A. Green. 



I have seen several cases when they 

 have done so.— H. D. Cutting. 



It has never come under my observa- 

 tion that they did. — S. I. Freeborn. 



Yes, they do if they have much Italian 

 blood in their veins. — R. L. Taylor. 



Sametimes bees will swarm without 

 any cells being started. — E. France. 



Oh, my ! yes ; lots, and lots, and lots 

 of times, Mr. Bee-man. — A. B. Mason. 



Not unless it is from starvation, or 

 some abnormal cause. — J.M.Hambaugh. 



Occasionally, when the swarming fever 

 is on, but not often. — G. M. Doolittle. 



Yes ; but such is abnormal, and in- 

 variably has its cause. — W. M. Barnum. 



I have had bees to swarm without 

 having started queen-cells at all. — M. 

 Mahin. 



So far as I have observed, the queen- 

 cells always precede normal sWarming. — 

 A. J. Cook. 



Italians do, sometimes, when there is 

 a fine flow of honey, coming suddenly. — 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Bees may swarm without having built 

 queen-cells previously. It is not uncom- 

 mon. — G. L. Tinker. 



I have never known a natural swarm 

 to leave a hive until after queen-cells 

 were sarted, at least. — Emerson T. Ab- 

 bott. 



Sometimes a colony will swarm when 

 the queen-cells are just in the incipient 

 stage — a condition not always observed 

 by the ordinary bee-keeper. — J. P. H. 

 Brown. 



Yes, it has been reported that bees 

 have swarmed naturally without any 

 preparation, but I never saw such a 

 case. Pauper swarms come out without 

 any start toward cells, but I have always 

 found Cdlls started in ati natural swarms. 

 — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



Yes, mine do sometimes. I have often 

 noticed that a sudden honey-flow will, 

 sometimes, "turn the heads " of a few 

 colonies in a large apiary, and thus 

 make thera act abnormally — swarm with- 

 out having previously started cells. 

 There is no mistake about it. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



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