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have abundant room given between the hives ; if it is 
necessary to pack close, let it be the first swarms, 
where the old queen has no occasion to leave. Hav- 
ing never seen this matter fully discussed, I wish to 
be somewhat particular, and flatter myself that I shall 
be able to direct the careful apiarian how to save a 
few stocks and swarms annually, that is, if he keeps 
many. A few years ago, I wrote >an article for the 
Albany Cultivator. A subscriber oF that paper told 
me a year afterwards that he saved two stocks the 
next summer by the information ; they were worth 
at least five dollars each, enough to pay for his paper 
ten years or more. 
When a stock casts but one swarm, the queen hav- 
ing no competitors to interfere with her movements, 
will leave in about fourteen days, if the weather is 
fair ; but should an after swarm leave, the oldest of 
the young queens will probably go with that, of 
course : then, it must be later before the next is 
ready : it may be twenty days, or even more ; those 
with after swarms will vary from one to six. It al- 
ways must occur when no eggs or -larvae exist, and no 
means left to repair this loss ; a loss it is, and a seri- 
ous one; the bees are in as much trouble as their 
owner, and a great deal more, they seeming to un- 
derstand the consequences, and he, if he knows 
nothing of the matter, has no trouble. Should he 
now, for the first time, learn the nature of it, he will 
at the same time understand the remedy. 
INDICATIONS OF THE LOSS. 
The next m owning after a loss of this kind has oc* 
