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to the population. At noon the next day I 
inspected the new establishment, and found, 
to my great satisfaction, that the experiment 
had completely succeeded. The founda- 
tions of six royal cells had been laid in the 
small piece of brood comb I had given them. 
In due time the queen was hatched, the hive 
prospered, and at the end of the season, the 
hive was as good as any of my natural 
swarms. Imay observe, that though it was 
one of my principle hives I used on this oc- 
casion, it would have succeeded equally as 
well with any other hive; the construction 
of the hive had no influence on the experi- 
ment farther than that it rendered it easier 
to fasten the piece of brood comb in. 
Another experiment I tried on forming ar- 
tificial swarms, was to drive about two thirds 
of the Bees out of their old hive with their 
queen, and put them into an empty hive. I 
immediately replaced the old hive on its 
former station, and removed the new one 
containing the queen, to a little distance. 
As the former had plenty of eggs and young 
