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en the table, or other place, observing the 

 rule aforesaid. 



REMARKS. 



Bees swarm from nine o'clock in the morn- 

 ing to three o'clock in the afternoon on a fair 

 day, differing in the season according to the 

 climate. In Vermont they generally swarm 

 from the middle of May to the fifteenth of Ju- 

 ly ; in late seasons some later. I have known 

 them to swarm as early as seven in the morn- 

 ing and as late as four in the afternoon, i have 

 also known them to come lorth when it rained 

 so hard as nearly to defeat them by beating 

 down many to the ground which were proba- 

 bly lost from their colony ; and I once had a 

 swarm come forth on the sixteenth day of 

 August. 



Experience and observation have taught 

 that the Queen leaves the old stock first, and 

 her colony rapidly follow. They fly about a 

 few minutes, apparently in the greatest confu- 

 sion, until the swarm is principally out of the 

 hive. They then alight, generally on the limb 

 of some tree, shrub, or bush, or some other 



