MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 119 
hive, and among them the queen. Know- 
ing the consequences of her loss, he sought 
for her diligently but in vain. Next morn- 
ing he observed a cluster of Bees about the 
size of an apple on the prop of the hive 
whose queen had fled; here he discovered a 
queen, and, having earried her to the en- 
trance of the hive which had lost its own, 
she was immediately surrounded by the Bees, 
and treated in such a manner as plainly an- 
nounced that she was their queen. ‘“ What 
was my astonishment,” he proceeds, “ when 
wishing to introduce her among the combs, 
I saw the Bees remaining had already plan- 
ned and almost finished three royal cells. 
Struck with the activity and sagacity of these 
creatures to save themselves from impending 
destruction, I was filled with admiration, and 
adored the infinite goodness of God in the 
care taken to perpetuate his works. Having 
carried away two of the cells, to ascertain 
whether the Bees would continue their ope- 
rations, I beheld, next morning, with the ut- 
most surprise, that they had removed all the 
