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population, and besides spare a good swarm, this 
plan may be put into execution, since every bee 
is, by it, at command to people the new hive. On 
the morning of a day when the honey-gatherers 
are flying strongly, drive every inhabitant from the 
stock selected to supply the swarm, which place on 
the stand of the parent stock. The parent stock is 
now made to occupy the stand of a second hive, 
which, in turn, takes a new position. All the bees 
of the parent hive remain with the driven swarm. 
The bees in flight from the second stock people the 
parent hive, feed the brood, maintain the required 
temperature, and raise a new queen; while the second 
stock, though losing its foraging population, has suffi- 
cient young bees not yet engaged in honey-gathering 
to carry on its work. (This method is applicable to 
frame hives as well as skeps, if driving be replaced 
by shaking or brushing, as presently explained.) 
Suppose, e.g.^ a bee-keeper to possess a Ligurian 
and a black stock, and that he desires to favour the 
Italians at the expense of the blacks. By driving 
all the Ligurians, and placing their hive upon the 
stand of the black stock, which is carried to a new 
location, half the blacks become nurses for Ligurian 
brood, and for raising a Ligurian queen; while the 
black stock, by constant hatching within, will, in a 
few days, be as strong as ever, and, at the expiration 
of ten or eleven days, if previously well furnished with 
brood, may be itself swarmed (technically ‘‘forced’'), 
when it will be placed on the stand then occupied 
by the first parent stock referred to, which will, in 
turn, go to a new position, thus losing the flying 
