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swarms, will run into the adjoining hive with- 

 out the least resistance. They will commence 

 their emigration by running in confused plat- 

 oons of hundreds, from their habitation to the 

 next adjoining hive. They immediately wheel 

 about and run home again, and thus continue, 

 sometimes for several days, in the greatest 

 confusion, constantly replenishing their neigh- 

 bor's hive, by enlarging her colony, and, at 

 the same time, reducing their own, until there 

 is not a single occupant left ; and remarkable 

 as it is, they leave every particle of their 

 stores for their owner or the depredations of 

 the moth. 



Colonies lose their Queens more frequent- 

 ly during the swarniing season than any other. 

 In the summer of 1830, I lost three good 

 stocks of bees in consequence of their losing 

 their Queens, one of which was lost soon after 

 the first swarming — the two others not many 

 days after the second swarming — all of which 

 manifested similar actions, and ended in the 

 same results, which will be more particularly 



explained in remarks on Rule 10. 

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