99 SUCCESSFUL BEE-KEEPING. 
5. Bees, alarmed with smoke or otherwise, instinctively 
seize upon their stores. ( 
The householder at the cry of fire, secures what he can. 
6. There should be no communication between occupied 
hives, allowing the bees of one to pass directly into the 
other. 
‘No house is large enough for two families.” 
7. A swarm of bees destitute of a queen fast dwindles 
away ; and, unless supplied with one, soon perishes either 
by robbers or moths. 
A country without a government, a farm without an 
owner, 
8. Swarms having combs insufficiently protected by 
bees, furnish a retreat for millers and food for worms. 
Unguarded treasures invite thieves. 
9. An excess of drones should he avoided by discourag- 
ing the construction of the cells that produce them. 
Drones are the “dead heads” of the hive—the wseless 
males in the farmev’s herds. 
10. The building of drone comb may, to a great extent, 
be prevented—first, by securing the construction of new 
combs in hives containing young queens; and, second, 
by placing frames to be filled, in other hives, near the 
centre. 
“An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of 
" cure.” | 
11. Queeps are most economically reared in small 
swarms, 
Who would employ ten men to do what one would do 
better ? 
12. Small swarms, if united in the fall, will winter more 
safely, and consume less honey. 
“In union there is strength.” 
