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out mature queens malce no preparation to rear workers, 180. Dividing hives to 

 multiply colonies will not answer, 181. Ruber's hive even, Inadequate. Com- 

 mon dividing hives unsuccessful. Multiplying "by brood comb in an empty hive, 

 Tain, 182. Multiplying by removal and substitution useless. Mortality of bees 

 in working season, 183. Connecting apartments a failure, 184. Many prefer 

 non-swarming hives, 185. Profitable in honey but calculated to exterminate the 

 insect. Improved hive good non-swarmer, if desired. Disadvantages of non- 

 swarming. Q,ueen bee becomes infertile. Remedied by the use of the improv- 

 ed hive, 186. Practicable mode of artificial swarming, 187. Bees will welcome 

 to their hives strange bees that come loaded. Will destroy such as come emp- 

 ty, 138. Forced swarming requires knowledge of the economy of the bee-hiTe. 

 Common hives give no facility for learning the bee's habits. Equalizing a di- 

 vided swarm, 190. Bees in parent hive, if removed, to be confined and watered, 

 191. BecB removed will return to their old place. Supplying bees with water 

 by a straw. Water necessary to prepare food for the larvae, 192. New forced 

 swarms to be returned to the place of the old one, or removed to a distance. 

 Treatment to wont them to new place in the Apiary, 193. Bees forget their 

 new locations. Objection to forced swarming in common hives, 194. Forced 

 swarming by the new hives removes the objection. Mode of forcing swarms by 

 the new hives, 195. dueen to be searched for. Important that she should be 

 in the right hive, 196. Convenience of forced swarming in supplying extra 

 queens. Mode of supplying them. Should be done by day light and in pleasant 

 weather, 197. Honey-wnter not to be used. Safety to the operator. Forced 

 swarming may be performed at mid-day. Advantages of the shape of the new 

 liive, 198. Huber's observation on the effect of sudden light in the hive. True 

 solution of the phenomenon. Bees at the top of the hive, less belligerent than 

 those at the bottom, 199. Sudden jars to be avoided. Removal of honey-board. 

 Sprinkling with sugar-water, 200. Loosening the fi-ames. Removing the comb. 

 Bees will adhere to their comb, 201. Natural swarming imitated. JTow to 

 catch the queen. Frames i*rolected ftom cold and robbery by bees. Frames 

 returned to the hive. Honey-cover, how managed. Motions of b^e-keeper to 

 be gentle. Bees must not he breathed on. Success in the operation certain, 

 209. New colonies may be thus formed in ten minutes. Natural swarm- 

 ing wholly prevented. If attempted by the bees cannot succeed. How to re- 

 move the wings of the queens, 203. Precaution against loss of queen by old age. 

 Advantages of this, 204. Certainty and ease of artificial swarming with the new 

 hive. ARer-swarms prevented if desired, 205. Large harvests of honey and 

 after-swarming impracticable. Danger of too rapid increase of stocks. Impor- 

 tance of understanding his object, by the bee-keeper, 206. The matter made 

 plain, 207. Apiarians dissuaded from more than trippling their stocks in a year. 

 Tenfold increase of stocks attainable, 209. Certain increase, not rapid, most 

 needed. Cautions concerning experiments, 210. Honey, largest yield obtained 

 by doubling colonies. The process, 211. May be done at swarming time. Bees 

 recognize each other by smell, 913. Importance of following these directions 

 illustrated. Process of uniting swarms simplified by the new hive, 214. Very 

 rapid increase of colonies precarious. Mode of effecting the most rapid increase, 

 215. Nucleus system, 217. Can a queen be raised from any egg ? Two sorts of 



