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to the mother-stock, instead of stopping short with an 

 increase of one from two, may be expanded to any rate 

 of increase that can possibly be secured ; while it has this 

 admirable peculiarity, that each step in advance is entirely 

 independent of any that are subsequently to be made; 

 and the process may be stopped at any tune when forage 

 fails, or the bee-keeper chooses from any cause to carry 

 it no further. 



If it is used for doubling the stocks, proceed as follows : 

 Let a fertile young queen be given to A (p. 180) as soon 

 as it is forced, and in ten days force a swarm from .Z?, 

 which I shall call D. Put D on the stand of B, and 

 after removing A to a new place, set B where A stood, 

 giving to B a fertile young queen. If another colony, 

 E, is to be formed, make it in the same way, by forcing 

 A, and transposing with B ; and so continue, by the 

 transposition of A and B forcing the new colony 

 alternately from each to make successively, at intervals 

 of about ten days, J? <2, H, &c. ; A and B being sup- 

 plied with a fertile queen as often as they are forced. 



To make this process more intelligible, let A and B 

 represent the first positions, in the Apiary, of the original 

 stocks : 



Original stocks, A, B. 



Position after 1st forcing, (7, A, B. 

 " " 2d C,B,D,A. 

 " " 3d " C,A,D,E,B. 

 " 4th " C, B, D, E, F, A. 

 " 5th " (7, A, D, E, F, G, B. 

 6th C, B, D, E,F,G,H, A. 



By looking at this table,* it will be seen that the new 



* The table is not intended to recommend setting hives in rows, close together. 

 A and S may be anywhere in the Apiary, and C, J>, E, <fec., as far apart as is at all 

 desirable. (Seo Chap, on Loss of Queen.) 



