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to the motber-stock, instead of stopping short with an 

 increase of one from two, may be expanded to any rate 

 of increase that can possibly be secured ; while it has this 

 admirable peculiarity, that each step in advance is entirely 

 independent of any that are subsequently to be made ; 

 and the process may be stopped at any time when forage 

 fails, or the bee-keeper chooses — from any cause — to carry 

 it no further. 



If it is used for doubling the stocks, proceed as follows : 

 I*t a fertile young queen be given to A (p. 180) as soon 

 as it is forced, and in ten days force a swarm from JB, 

 which I shall call D. Put D on the stand of Ji, and 

 after removing A to a new place, set JB where A stood, 

 giving to ^ a fertile young queen. If another colony, 

 £J, is to be formed, make it in the same way, by forcing 

 A, and transposing with £ ; and so continue, by the 

 transposition of A and JB — forcing the new colony 

 alternately from each — to make successively, at intervals 

 of about ten days, F, G, S, &c. ; A and B being sup- 

 plied with a fertile queen as often as they are forced.' 



To make this process more intelligible, let A and S 

 represent the first positions, in the Apiary, of the origiual 

 stocks : 



Original stocks, A, £. 



Position after 1st forcing, C, A, B. 



Ey looking at this table,* it Avill be seen tbat tbe new 



* The table is not Intended to recommend setting hives In rows, ^jlose .together, 

 A and" B may be am/where in the Apiary, and C, D, E, <&c,, as far apart as iB at all 

 aesirable. (See Chap, on Loss of Queen.) 



