CONTENTS. 
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Description of a swarm leaving the hive. — Question dis- 
cussed whether the Bees send out a scout.— Confirmed 
by Mr. Knight.-— Opinion of St. Jean de Crevecoeur.— - 
Duchet.-— Ducarne. — Dubost.— New hives to be kept in 
readiness for the swarms. — No specific 'rules for hiving 
a swarm.— Depend on circumstances. — Description of 
the dress to be used when hiving a swarm.— Me- 
thod to be adopted with a swarm having no Queen. — 
.'swarms divided into clusters.— -Junction of swarms.-— 
.Method to be adopted In that case.— Practice of 
the ancients to induce tliq Jees to enter the hive.— 
i he value of a swarm determined by its weight.— 
becond swarms. — Signs of them. ---Supernumerary 
Queens massacred. — Second swarms seldom worth 
preserving.— Method of uniting swarms.— Food to be 
given to a swarm in rainy weather.— Virgin 
,warms.— Clustering Bees.— Artificial swarms.— Differ- 
ent methods.— Method of obtaining Queens.— Suggested 
by Ducarne, . . . . ... isG 
CHAP. XVF. ' 
0.V THE METHOD OF PREPARING HoNEV AND WaX FOR MAR- 
KET.— Situation of the place for the manipulation of the 
honey.— Implements required for the purpose.— Me- 
thod of extracting primary honey.— Particular rules to be 
observed. T--Method of obtaining secondary honey.— 
The operation not to be performed in cold weather. 
Pbe instruments to be used, to be taken to the Apiary 
for the use of the Bees.— Directions for the same.— 
Rules for the preservation of honey. v-Proporlion of ho- 
ney and wax.— -Adulteration of honey,. — T wo methods of 
discovering it.— Rules for choosing honey.— Medicinal 
properties of honey, 193 
CHAP.^XVn. 
•Jjr THE CAUSE OP THE MORTALiTv OF Bees.— T wo kinds of 
mortality.— Cold not injurious to Bees. — Error of keep- 
ing Bees warm in winter.— Travels in Rus 8 ia.-*-Bees 
kept fn Siberia.v-Never die from cold.— Travels in 
Lapland.— Experfment to determine the interior tempe- 
rature of a hive in this country.— More hives destroy- 
ed by heat than cold.— Hives ruined by the too great 
influence of the sun.— Method af averting it.— Danger 
