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and, consequently, to the crowding of the hive. If 
the glass windows become sensibly warm, attended 
with clustering at the mouth, increased building 
room should at once be given, as above detailed at 
PP: 51 and 188, or under the head of “ Nadirs ;”’ 
for a fertile queen will require a large proportion of 
the stock-hive for the purpose of depositing eggs. 
Should a few cold nights ensue, the supers must be 
kept covered; and more especially glasses, which 
the bees will desert unless a warm temperature is 
fully preserved in them. 
I much doubt the likelihood of our preventing 
the swarming of bees when the extra storing room 
is delayed till royal cells have become tenanted, or, 
perhaps, only formed.* Mischief has also frequently 
arisen where the bees have all at once had a large 
additional space given them of too cold a tempera- 
ture, or been afforded undue or ill-timed ventila- 
tion, as in using Nutt’s hives was often the case. 
The same cause has sometimes operated to prevent 
progress of any kind; and in a collateral hive thus 
managed, I witnessed the fact that, during five or 
SIX successive seasons there was no more breeding 
or storing than barely sufficed to keep the unhappy 
family in existence, the proprietor deriving no 
benefit whatever. 
Temperature and Weather.—With the advance of 
the season, and a more abundant efflorescence, the 
buzz of the hive becomes louder and more general, 
* In frame hives such cells can be cut comp'etely away, and in so 
doing the surrounding cells will some of them have to be sacrificed, as 
the greatest precaution is advisable against leaving the jelly for the 
bees to devour. 
