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these bees will be running in and out of the empty hive, (See 

 p. 72,) but as soon as the opportunity is given them, they will 

 crowd into their well-known home, and if there are no royal 

 cells started, will proceed, almost at once, to construct them, 

 and the next day they will act as though the forced swarm 

 had left of its own accord. When the operation is delayed 

 until about the season for natural swarming, the hive will 

 contain immature queens, if the bees were intending to 

 swarm, and a new queen will soon take the place of the 

 old one, just as in natural swarming. If it is performed too 

 early, and before the drones have made their appearance, 

 the young queen may not be seasonably impregnated, and 

 the parent stock will perish. 



It will be obvious that this whole process, in order to be 

 successfully performed, requires a knowledge of the most 

 important points in the economy of the bee-hive ; indeed the 

 same remark may be made of almost any operation, and 

 those who are willing to remain ignorant of the laws which 

 regulate the breeding of bees, ought not to depart in the 

 least, from the old-fashioned mode of management. All 

 such deviations will only be attended with a wanton sacrifice 

 of bees. A man may use the common swarming hives a 

 whole life-time, and yet remain ignorant of the very first 

 principles in the physiology of the bee, unless he gains his 

 information from other sources ; while, by the use of my 

 hives, any inlelligent cultivator may, in a single season, 

 verify for himself, the discoveries which have only been 

 made by the accumulated toil of many observers, for more 

 than two thousand years. The ease with which Apiarians 

 may now, by the sight of their own eyes, gain a knowledge 

 of all the important facts in the economy of the hive, will 

 stimulate them most powerfully, to study the nature of the 

 bee and thus to prepare themselves for an enlightened 

 system of management. 



