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ure. So also, as a general rule, bees construct store 
combs—deep cells—or large drone cells in all side or top 
boxes, or other apartments than that in which the queen .- 
and the broods are at the time. 
The Dividing Hive was only another form of the same 
thing, and is open to the same objections and from pre- 
cisely similar causes. 
Another plan still, called the Colomzing System—and I 
speak of and expose the falacies of these various methods 
here because they are still adhered to by some who know 
no better, and shameless pretenders are to-day imposing 
upon public credulity by vending these exploded humbugs 
—is to make a box, and partition it off into two or more 
apartments having communications or openings between 
them, and also direct outlets to the fields. Into one of 
these a swarm of bees is put, it being intended that when 
the parent hive becomes filled, the bees, for want of room, 
shall pass through into the side apartments, gradually 
filling therm with combs and brood. When this is done, 
the communication is to be cut off by means of a slide, 
and the part which is thus made queenless left to rear 
queens and colonize themselves. Like the methods before 
noticed, this, too, would seem to work sometimes, and why 
not always? 
Because the system is based upon error and cannot 
possibly succeed, for the reason that not until the queen 
becomes crowded for cells in the main apartment in which 
to deposit her eggs will she pass into a side apartment. 
Before she passes into the side apartment, drone and 
store combs for the most part are built in that apartment ; 
and if during her absence from it and before it is occu-. 
pied by brood, an attempt to swarm the bees be made by 
cutting off the communication, they will soon find it out 
