CHAPTER I V. 
ARTIFICIAL SWARMING. 
ADVANTAGES OF, AND OBSERVABLE RULES FOR ARTIFI- 
CIAL SWARMING. 
That artificial swarming is a surer and safer method 
to increase stocks, (if properly practiced,) than to rely 
on the uncertainties or natural swarming, is now a set- 
tled fact among all bee-keepers, and the necessity was 
felt centuries ago. Although not known to all even at 
the present time, it has been practiced with more or 
less success for nearly a century. Huber, after his in- 
vention of the sectional bee hive, seems to have prac- 
ticed it. Dr. Scudamore, in writing on the advantages 
derived from artificial swarming, and the disadvantages 
and difficulties attending natural swarming, makes the 
following observations : 
“There is no certainty of the time when natural 
swarming will take place, by reason of several causes, 
some of which may (and probably will,) prevent it al- 
