244 SUMMER. 



Have abundant room given between the hives ; if it ia 

 necessary to pack close, let it be the first swarms, 

 where the old queen has no occasion to leave. Hav- 

 ing never seen this matter fully discussed, I wish to 

 be somewhat particular, and flatter myself that I shall 

 be able to direct the careful apiarian how to save a 

 few stocks and swarms annually, that is, if he keeps 

 many. A few years ago, I wrote an article for the 

 Albany Cultivator. A subscriber of that paper told 

 me a year afterwards that he saved two stocks the 

 next summer by the information ; they were worth 

 at least five dollars each, enough to pay for his paper' 

 ten years or more. 



When a stock casts but one swarm, the queen hav 

 ing no competitors to interfere with her movements, 

 will leave in about fourteen days, if the weather is 

 fair ; but should an after swarm leave, the oldest of 

 the young queens will probably go with that, of - 

 course: then, it must be later before the next is 

 ready : it may be twenty days, or even more ; those 

 with after swarms will vary from one to six. It aU~ ' 

 ways must occur when no eggs or larvae exist, and no 

 means left to repair this loss ; a loss it is, and a seri- 

 ous one; the bees are in as much trouble as their 

 owner, and a great deal more, they seeming to un- 

 derstand the .consequences, and he, if he knows 

 nothing of the matter, has no trouble. Should he 

 now, for the first time, learn the nature of it, he will 

 at the same time understand the remedy, 



INDICATIONS OF THE LOSS. 



The next tnOTning after a loss of this kind has oc- 



