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control and many hives have been designed 

 and some of them patented, which were 

 supposed to prevent the bees from accom- 

 plishing their desires in this respect. We 

 must remember, however, that it is by 

 swarming that bees increase their numbers 

 and establish new bee communities. It is 

 the instinct for the preservation of the 

 race and when we confront natural laws 

 of this sort we must make allowances. 

 Sometimes we may become impatient with 

 the bees for their apparent insane desire 

 to swarm, but at such times we do not 

 want to forget that they are backed in 

 their desires by thousands of generations 

 of other bees that never knew any better 

 than to go ahead and preserve their kind 

 as their Creator designed them to do. 



The modern beekeeper takes these 

 things into consideration and while he 

 does all he can to prevent swarming at 

 the same time he makes the best of it when 

 a swarm issues in spite of his precautions. 

 As a rule bees will not swarm unless thev 



