52 AN EASY METHOD OF 



swarm three or four times the same season. 

 All swarms, after the first, sally forth to avoid 

 the battle of the Queens ; constantly making 

 a greater draft, in proportion to the number 

 left, until the combs are partly exposed, which 

 dves the miller free access to their edo-es. — 

 The seeds of rapine and plunder are thus 

 quickly sown, and soon vegetate, and fortify 

 themselves by their silken fortress, before the 

 bees are aware that their frontiers are in- 

 vaded. While the moths are thus ensjao^ed 

 in establishing their posts on the frontiers of 

 the bees, the latter are constantly and indefa- 

 tigably engaged in providing themselves with 

 another Queen, to supply the place of the old 

 one, which has departed with a swarm, and 

 raising young bees to replenish their reduced 

 colony. Now as the motl^ have got posses- 

 sion of the ground on their frontiers, it re- 

 quires a tremendous effort on the part of the 

 bees to save their little colony from a com- 

 plete overthrow. 



If late, or second and third swarms are al- 

 ways returned immediately, according to the 



