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of course we all will. I might give other methods -which 

 would render unnecessary this caution, but they are to my 

 mind inferior, and not to be recommended. If we proceed as 

 above described, the bees will seldom prepare to swarm at all, 

 and if they do they will be discovered .in the act, by such fre- 

 quent examinations, and the work may be cut short by at 

 once dividing such colonies as first explained, and destroying 

 their queen-cells, or, if desired, using them for forming new 

 nuclei. 



