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iared in the place of the old one matures, she will rapidly 

 11 the cells with eggs, and raise a large number of bees to 

 ike advantage of the late honey-harvest, and to prepare 

 le hive to winter most advantageously. 



The certainty, rapidity and ease of making artificial 

 warms wiih my hives, will be such as to amaze those most 

 r'ho have had the greatest experience and success in the 

 lanagement of bees. Instead of weeks wasted in watching 

 he Apiary, in addition to all the other vexations and em- 

 larrassments which are so often found to attend reliance on 

 latural swarming, the Apiarian will find not only that he 

 ;aa create all his new colonies in a very short time, but 

 hat he can, if he chooses, entirely prevent the issue of all 

 ifter-swarms. In order to do this, he ought to examine the 

 ;tocks which are raising young queens, in season to cut out 

 ill the queen cells but one, before the larvae come to matu- 

 rity. If he gave them a sealed queen nearly mature, they 

 will raise no others, and no swarming, for that season, will 

 take place. If the Apiarian wishes to do more than to dou- 

 ble his stocks in one season, and is favorably situated for 

 practicing natural swarming, he can allow the stocks that 

 raise young queens to swarm if they will, and he can 

 strengthen the small swarms by giving to them comb with 

 honey and maturing brood from other hives. Or he can, 

 after an interval of about three weeks, make one swarm 

 from every two good ones in his Apiary, in a way that will 

 60on be described. 



I do not know that I can find a better place in which to 

 impress certain highly important principles upon the atten- 

 tion of the bee-keeper. I am afraid, that in spite of all 

 that 1 can say, many persons as soon as they find them- 

 selves able to multiply colonies at pleasure, will so overdo 

 the matter, as to run the risk of losing all their bees. If 

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