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and much time and anxiety in regard to the swarming 

 of your bees may be averted. 



Had I been present when the aforesaid two swarms 

 of A and B issued, I should have advised them as fol- 

 lows : — 



Gentlemen, by all means, put your bees into the regu- 

 lar-sized hives. Yours, Mr. A, is now large, and perhaps 

 3'ou may, during this very warm weather, think that a 

 common hive cannot possibly afford room for them ; but 

 you may depend upon it, that they will all find accomo- 

 dation therein. They appear to be more numeroraRhan 

 they really are, in consequence of the heat of the weather 

 causing them to extend in clustering, in order to allow 

 a current of air to pass through them. When hived, it 

 you find a large portion to cluster outside the hive, do 

 not be alarmed ; the first few cool days we have, will 

 drive every bee in, and next September you will ac- 

 knowledge that what I say is right. 



And you, Mr. B, do throw that 5 by 7 box into the' 

 fire, I entreat you. It always gives me a fit of the ague, 

 to see the management of bees thus butchered, if I may 

 be allowed the use of that term. Do get one of your 

 foot-square boxes, and let them fill such a portion of it 

 as they can. They will not more than quarter fill it 

 this season, but, sir, next year, you will have as good a 

 stock of bees as any in your apiary. You may have to 

 feed this swarm a little in the fall ; for, small swarms 

 never do lay up much honey, but when the time comes 

 for feeding,! will inform you how you can, for twenty-five 

 cents, feed them enough in one day, to carry them safely 



