ARTIFICIAL SWARMING. 1 15 



By often looking through the windows of 

 floried boxes, in the f Warming feafon, some- 

 times a queen may be feen in one of the 

 boxes. Immediately fhove a divider between 

 the two boxes. Leave them about an hour ; 

 when if the bees of both boxes remain quiet, 

 wait fome time longer, and then repeat the 

 infpection, by intervals, two or three times, 

 till the approach of night ; and if they are 

 llill in a quiet ftate, introduce the other di- 

 vider, and take the duplet to a diftant Na- 

 tion. On the contrary, if the bees of either 

 box have fhowed figns of difcontent, it is a 

 token there is no queen in that which fhows 

 uneafinefs ; and therefore the divider mud 

 be withdrawn, till another favourable op- 

 portunity offers. 



The second method is : In the fwarm* 

 ing feafon, when the bees feem very nume- 

 rous, and mow indications of fwarming, 

 fhove a divider between a duplet in the 

 morning, having before opened both doors ; 

 and if the bees remain quiet and purfue their 

 ijv r ork, in both boxes, till the evenings pro- 

 ceed with them as above. But if the bees 

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