42 AN EASY METHOD OF 



Stately and majestic. She is much less in 

 size after the season for breeding is over. She 

 is easily selected from among a swarm, at any 

 season of the year, by any one who has often 

 seen her. 



RULE IX. 



ON MULTIPLYING COLONIES TO ANY DESI- 

 RABLE EXTENT, WITHOUT THEIR 

 SWARMING. 



This large drawer, No. 1, should always 

 be used for this purpose. Insert slides, as in 

 Rule 6, and remove the drawer containing 

 bees and brood-comb ; place the same In the 

 chamber of an empty hive ; stop the entran- 

 ces of both the new and old hives, taking care 

 to give them air, as in Rule 4. Give clean 

 water daily, three or four days. Now let the 

 bees, in both hives, have^heir liberty. 



REMARKS. 



This operation is both practicable and easy, 

 and is of prime importance to all cultivators, 

 who wish to avoid the necessity of hiving them 

 when they swarm ; and yet it will not prevent 

 swarming; except in that part of the divided 



