SPRING MANAGEMENT. 3805 
ever, under ordinary circumstances, re-enter the 
original parent hive. 
We may say a word as to a practice of some 
proprietors, with a view of giving additional strength 
to a recent swarm: the stock-hive from whence the 
issue took place is moved to a little distance, and 
immediately that the swarm is settled in its new 
hive, the latter is placed on the site which the 
other had just left. The outlying bees, on returning 
home, will of course fly to the original spot, joining 
and strengthening the new family. The old one 
must necessarily be weakened in the same propor- 
tion, but it will soon be recruited by the maturation 
of the brood which it is sure to contain. Some- 
times this shifting of the stock-hive has been 
allowed to be permanent; whilst in other instances 
it has been found more expedient to limit it to the 
two or three hours immediately following the swarm- 
ing. The hives should, under the latter supposition, 
be then made to change places, and no bees would 
be lost, as one or the other of the two positions 
would be sought by them. 
It may be well to refer the reader to what has 
been said at page 174, relative to the occasional 
necessity that might exist for feeding a newly-hived 
family of bees. 
We know how largely swarming is influenced by 
the condition of the hive as to crowding or roominess ; 
but it is erroneous to conclude therefrom that the 
inclination to swarm can be wholly disposed of by 
affording continually increased space. The increase 
ordained by nature could by no other means take place. 
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