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exceptions. Perhaps one in a hundred swaiins 

 may come forth before' their hive is filled with 

 comb ; but from nearly forty years experience 

 in their cultivation, I never saw an instance of 

 it, where the hive was not full of bees at their 

 first swarming. When bees go from the old 

 stock to the tree without alighting, it is when 

 they lie out of the hive before swarming, and 

 the embassy are sent forth before the swarm 

 leaves the old stock. , When the first swarm 

 comes forth, eggs, young brood, or both, are 

 left in the combs, but no Queen ; for the old 

 Queen always goes forth with the swarm, and 

 leaves the old stock entirely destitute. Not 

 a single Queen, in any stage of minority^ 

 left in the hive. The bees very soon find 

 themselves destitute of the means of propaga- 

 ting their species, (for the Queen is the only 

 female in the hive,) and immediately set them- 

 selves to work in constructing stveral ruyil 

 cells, (probably to be more sure of success.) 

 take a grub (larva) from the cell of a common 

 worker, plaoe jt in the new-made royal ceW, 

 i'sed it on royal jelly, and in a few days they 



