at 
- sloughing their robes, soon announce a new swarm. In 
this time, the bees are exclusively occupied in building 
cells and furnishing aliment, for the rising population, and 
collect no more provision than is necessary for the daily 
consumption. . / 
If at this time (say fifteen or twenty days) a new box be 
placed under that which contains the colony, it will be-— 
come a Scottish hive. ‘The works will be very much ad- 
vanced before the end of summer, and on the return of 
spring, the third pannier or box may be confidently placed, 
and then it will become a pyramidal hive. At the age of 
thirteen or fourteen months, or towards the latter part of 
September, on the usual massacre of the drones, this colony 
will be in full harvest. 
This hive will therefore become Scottish at fifteen or 
twenty days old, and pyramidal in seven or eight months; 
and six months after that, in proportion as the season is 
favourable, about the end of September, the upper pannier 
or box may be removed, rich for harvest, perfectly filled 
with wax and honey, without bees, nymphs, larvae, or 
couvain of any kind. The bees have all descended to the 
middle story, where the queen has finished her summer 
lay, which will not be hatched till the following spring. 
* x 5 x * 
CHAPTER X. 
OF SWARMS IN GENERAL. 
When a hive becomes so crowded with bees, that there 
is not sufficient room for their accommodation, a colony 
emigrates, and makes an establishment somewhere else. 
‘This emigration, or swarming, never takes place unless 
it has a queen, duly qualified to direct and perpetuate the 
colony; and one alone is sufficient. Four or five days 
after a new queen has put off her nymphal robe, she is 
qualified to lay; and would lay, if she had a private estab- 
lishment, separate from the maternal family, where she 
has no right to lay. She is then in a state to assume the 
direction of a swarm; which, when selected, will be dis- 
posed to follow her any where, and every where—such is. 
the attachment of bees to their queen.. 
