TO CUT A BEE TREE. 
Cl 
bees in honey. Besides, if a colony is put into a hive, they 
can maintain themselves and fill the hive. If the bees are 
put in a movable comb hive, all the brood and nicest of the 
combs can be fitted into it, so as to give them a good start. (See 
transferring). Besides, if their queen is killed they can rear 
another. If the bees are in a good tree it is best to go in 
partnership with the owner in cutting it. When there were 
no bees in this county more than two miles west of Cadiz, a 
swarm of them came to a man at Cassville, seven miles west, 
so they must have gone five miles or more. 
CASTS OR AFTER-SWARMS. 
Medium or small sized hives yield swarms sooner than 
large ones. They are also more likely to give off after-swarms. 
After the first swarm leaves, there is a thousand or more 
hatching every day, so that in a few days the hive will have 
become quite populous again. They will have several young 
queens hatching, generally about ten days after the first swarm, 
so that if the weather is favorable and the honey resources 
abundant there will be a likelihood of another swarm issuing. 
I suppose there are more second swarms come off on the tenth 
day than on any other, and nine-tenths of them will come be- 
tween the eighth and twelfth days. Sometimes they will come 
earlier than the eighth day, and others may run even as far as 
tijo fifteenth. But after the seventeenth day, no more swarms 
need be looked for that seasou, as all the young queens will 
be hitched out. If the bees are not gathering honey pretty 
freely, you need not look for swarms, no difference how much 
they lie out. Do not be looking for swarms all fall, nor com- 
plaining of the bees because “ they are lying out and doing 
no good it is not their fault. If there was plenty of honey 
in the flowers you could hardly keep them from gathering it 
If young queens are found dead at the entrance of tho hive 
after the first swarm leaves, it is pretty sure evidence that 
they have given up swarming any more. When they design 
swarming again it seems they guard the queens in the cells, 
feeding them and keeping them in their cells so that they 
maj not get out and destroy each other as they are certain 
to do if left to their own way. They thus keep them until 
they need them for whatever swarms they see proper to givo 
off. I have had,cight or ten queens hatched in my hand in 
