MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 105 
space of five minutes the Bees will be all in 
the hive, then set your hive iu the apiary 
where it belongs. 
CHAPTER XVI. 
SECOND SWARMS. 
Arter the departure of the first swarm, 
with the old queen at its head, the commu- 
nity is for a time, generally, without a queen. 
There is brood in the royal cells, but none 
come to maturity, and it is not till the first to 
the fifth, and some times the seventh day, 
in ordinary cases, that the senior of the young 
princesses is hatched, and takes her place as 
queen regnant. Her first stepis to hasten to 
the other royal cells, and endeavor to destroy 
her rivals. In these attempts, with which 
she is incessantly occupied for several days, 
she is strongly opposed by the workers, to 
whom, so long as she remains a virgin, she 
