44 AN EASY METHOD 



CHAPTER VIT. 



THE METHOD OF COMPELLING SWARMS TO- MAKE AND KEEP EXTRA 

 QXffiENS FOR THEIR APIAIilAN OK OWNER. 



Take a drawer containing bees and brood-comb, and place 

 the same in the chamber of an empty hive ; take care to 

 stop the entrance of the hive, and give them clean water 

 daily, three or fom- days : then unstop the mouth of the hive 

 and give theru liberty. The operator must observe Chapter 

 VI. in using the slides, in removing the box from the original 

 hive. 



REMARKS. 



The prosperity of every colony depends entirely on the 

 condition of the queen, when the season is favorable to thein. 



Every bee-master should understand their nature in this 

 respect, so as to enable him to be in readiness to supply 

 them with another queen when they chance to become des- 

 titute. 



The discovery of the fact that bees have power to change 

 the nature of the grub (larva) of a worker to that of a 

 queen, is attributed to Bonner. But neither Bonner nor the 

 indefatigable Huber, nor any other writer, to my knowledgCj 

 has gone so far in the illustration of this discovery as to ren- 

 der it practicable and easy for common people to avail them- 

 selves of its benefits. 



The Chamber Hive is the only one, to my knowledge, in 

 which bees can be compelled to make and keep extra queens 

 for the use of their owner, without extreme difficulty, as 

 well as danger, by stings, in attempting the experiment. 



