On Rational Bee-Keeping. 
5 
To this fact some members who attended my 
lectures at Lausanne, or those I gave in the 
cantons of Geneva, Vaud, and Neufchatel, are 
able to bear witness. 
In order to make an artificial swarm, it is 
simply necessary to fix a piece of comb, con- 
taining brood at different stages of maturity, to 
the top of an ordinary hive, and to put this 
hive in the place of a strong colony, of which 
a large portion of the bees are abroad at work.* 
Bees can also be induced to go into an empty 
hive by means of drumming,'’ or, to speak in 
plainer language, by rapping the full hive sharply 
with a couple of sticks, or the hands, until the 
bees are driven out. The author of a work on 
bees remarks, however, that if no result is 
obtained after an hour and a half by these 
means, the operation should be recommenced 
on the following day. Our readers will see as 
we do, that this latter method can only be em- 
ployed by those who have time to waste, and, 
moreover, presents many difficulties.! 
It is clear, however, that by taking out some 
* Method pointed out, long ago, by M. de Gdieu. 
t There is very little difficulty in expelling bees from a 
stock by “ driving,” if properly performed. — Trans. 
