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the afternoon as there is light enough to do it, a comb con- 

 taining worker-eggs, and bees just gnawing out of their cells, 

 and put it, with the mature bees that are on it, into an 

 empty hive. If there are not bees enough adhering to it, 

 to prevent the brood from being chilled during the night, 

 more must be shaken into the hive from other combs. If 

 the transfer is made so late in the day that the bees are not 

 disposed to leave the hive, enough may have hatched, by morn- 

 ing, to supply the place of those which will return to the 

 parent stock. 



523. In every case, when a swarm has left its hive for 

 another quarter, each bee, as she sallies out, flies with her 

 head turned towards it, that by marking the surrounding 

 objects, she may find her way back. If, however, the bees 

 did not emigrate of their own free will, most of them appear- 

 ing to forget, or not knowing, that their location has been 

 changed, return to their familiar spot; for it would seem 

 that, 



"A 'bee removed' against her will, 

 Is of the same opinion still." 



Should the Apiarist, ignorant of this fact, place the nu- 

 cleus on a new stand without providing it with a sufficient 

 number of young bees, it would lose so many of the bees 

 which ought to be retained in it, that most of its unsealed 

 brood would perish from neglect. 



If the comb used in forcing such a nucleus was removed 

 at a time of day when the bees would be likely to return to 

 the parent stock, tliey should be confined to the hive, until 

 it is too late for them to leave ; and if the number of bees, just 

 emerging from their cells, is not large, the entrance to the 

 hive should be closed, until about an hour before sunset of 

 the next day but one. The hive containing this small col- 

 ony, should be properly ventilated, and shaded— if thin— 

 from the intense heat of the sun; it should always be well 

 supplied with honey. The space unoccupied in the hive should 

 be separated from the nucleus by a division board (349). 



