NATUllAL SWARMING. 



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407. Bees sometimes abandon their hives very early in 

 Spring, or even late in Summer or Fall (264). Although 

 exhil)iting the appearance of natural swarming, they leave, 



not because the population is so crowded that they wish tc 

 form new colonies, but because it is either so small, or the 

 hive so destitute of supplies, that they are driven to desper- 



