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to chance, since the queen does not invariably rise 
during the driving, while her presence is absolutely 
essential to the swarm. If the forced swarm, being 
placed on the stand, remains tolerably quiet for the 
space of twenty minutes, or half an hour at most 
— the bees not rushing wildly in and out of the 
hive, nor running over it apparently in search of 
something — it may be concluded that they have dis- 
covered their mother, notwithstanding our failure. But 
if their excitement is great and, apparently, increasing, 
while the driven hive is quiet, the evidence is un- 
favourable, when either the driven hive must be 
again operated upon, in the hope of securing her, 
or the bees returned to the old stock, replaced in 
its original position, so that another attempt may be 
made on a future day. 
The second difficulty is leaving in the old stock 
just the fitting number of bees for carrying on the 
work of the colony and raising queens. This is 
often most conveniently managed by arranging the 
stock and swarm with reference to their old location. 
If not more than half the bees had been driven when 
the queen was seen to rise, the old stock must occupy 
a totally new site, while the swarm is put in posses- 
sion of the original stand, to which, from force of 
habit, many of the bees still left in the stock will 
come after their first flight ; but if the stock has been 
driven very bare of bees, it is well to place the forced 
swarm and parent hive on opposite sides of the stand 
formerly occupied by the latter. The distance inter- 
vening between will depend upon the general arrange- 
ment of the apiary. Where the hives are compressed 
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