114 ARTIFICIAL SWARMING. 



CHAP. XIII. 



ARTIFICIAL SWARMING, 



AM forry to declare, that I have met 

 with no invention, among the many that have 

 been published, or among the great num- 

 ber of my own deviling, for artificial fwarm- 

 ing, adapted to common USE, or that 

 has been in general fuceefsful. From fo great 

 a difappointment, I am inclined to draw a 

 conclufion, that as nature has implanted in 

 bees a ftrong propenfity to fwarm, as a 

 quality neceffarily connected with the man- 

 ner and feafon ; all our attempts, by force 

 or allurements , to effsdt or prevent it, with a 

 tolerable degree of timely advantage, mull 

 prove ineffectual. I propofe the two fol- 

 lowing methods, however ; as, if not fuceefs- 

 ful, they will not be prejudicial to the ftocks, 

 may amufe the curious, and be accompliihed 

 without much trouble. But they are map* 

 plicable to general pra&ice. 



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