38 AN EASY METHOD OF 



RULE VIll. 



ON SUPPLYING SWARMS, DESTITUTE OF A 

 aUEEN, WITH ANOTHER. 



Take the drawer from the hive, which was 

 placed there according to Rule 7, and insert 

 the same into the chamber of the hive to be 

 supplied ; observing Rule 6 in the use of the 

 slides. 



REMARKS. 



Colonies destitute of a Queen may be sup- 

 plied with another the moment it is found they 

 have none ; which is known only by their 

 actions. 



Bees, when deprived of their female sove- 

 reign, cease their labors ; no polen or bee- 

 bread is seen on their legs ; no ambition seems 

 to actuate their movements ; no dead bees are 

 drawn out ; no deformed bees, in the various 

 st3(;es of their minority, are extracted, and 

 dragged out of their cells, and dropped down 

 about the hivs, as is usual among all healthy 

 and prosperous colonies* 



Colonies that have lost their Queen, when 

 standing on the bench by the side of other 



