60 AN EASY METHOD 



colony, and they can do but little more, in raising young 

 bees, than to keep their stock good by replenishing them as 

 fast as they die off, or are destroyed by the birds, reptiles 

 and insects, which are great admirers of them, and some- 

 times swallow them by dozens. Now, if it requires five 

 swarming colonies to be equal in number to the one first 

 described, it is not difficult to imagine that five times as 

 many bees may be raised by the swarming colonies ; for one 

 queen will probably lay as many eggs as another. 



The swarming-hives are no more liable to be destroyed 

 by the moth, during the swarming season, than others, if the 

 hives are kept well replenished with bees. 



