1g0 Of the Natural Swarming of Bees. 
We fhall likewife thow, how it is fometimes e- 
qually neceflary and advantageous to make ar- 
tificial f{warms, along with the manner of do- 
ing it to the beft advantage, when it is necef- 
fary. 
As the time when a hive will throw a 
fwarm is quite uncertain, efpecially to young 
beginners in the bee-hufbandry, a conftant at- 
tendance is neceflary in {warming time, from 
eight o’clock in the morning tll about three 
or four in the afternoon. But this may be 
done with little trouble or expence. <A boy, 
or a girl, or any old perfon, may be employed 
to watch the bees during thefe hours ; and this 
needs only to be done in fine days, as the bees 
feldom fend out a colony in cold, cay, or 
ehilly weather. : 
Some hives will ly out longbefore they fwarm, 
though they will {warm at laft; others, although 
they he out equally long, will not fwarm at 
all; a third clafs will fwarm without the fmal- 
left previous appearance; and a fourth will 
make a buftle about their doors, for three or 
four days before they fwarm: And, therefore, 
from fuch a variety of chances, it is {carce pof- 
fible to determine the precife time of fwarm- 
ing; although we ie reafonably conjecture, 
from 
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