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CHAPTER IX. 
ON ARTIFICIAL SWARMS. 
SWARMS BY DIVISION. 
In order to make an artificial swarm from an 
old hive in which natural swarming has ceased, 
and with greater reason from a hive in good 
condition, it is only necessary to place the old 
hive on the top of one of our hives, without any 
board between the two. Care should be taken 
to smear the corners of the wooden hive and 
the projecting parts of the straw hive with 
mortar. 
In every case, it is necessary that all crevices 
should be carefully closed up, the best kind of 
plaster for doing this being a mixture made of 
a third part of lime and two thirds of cow-dung ; 
but it is necessary that the plaster should be 
thick, and also it ought not to be allowed to 
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