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peacefully and quietly remain, aiding the inmates of their 

 new home, by increasing, in proportion to their numbers, the 

 animal heat so necessary to preserve the bees from freezing, 

 and keephig the honey warm and nutritive. This kind of 

 transferring should be performed in the early part of a warm, 

 pleasant day. It is proper to add, that, in case the queen is 

 allowed to remain among the bees, the whole' swarm will 

 attempt to enter, in a body, some other hive, and the object 

 will be defeated, since many will fall on both sides, in their 

 struggle to enter the hive and live with their.neighbors. We 

 have often seen them thus attempt an entrance, when a suffi- 

 cient number of bees would perish, at the mouths of the 

 several hives, to make an entire swarm. Though greatly 

 reduced in numbers, they finally alighted on a fence post, but 

 as soon as we had removed the queen, they quietly dispersed 

 among the neighboring hives, where they remained as one 

 family, living and laboring in perfect harmony. 



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