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A BRIEF HISTORY. 
combs are empty, and food abundant, they rear brood 
more extensively than at any other period, (towards 
fall more combs are filled with honey, giving less 
room for brood.) The hive soon becomes crowded 
with bees, and royal cells are constructed, in which 
the queen deposits her eggs. When some of these 
young queens are advanced sufficiently to be sealed 
over, the old one, and the greater part of her subjects, 
leave for a new location, {termed swarming.) They 
soon collect in a cluster, and, if put into an empty 
hive, commence anew their labors; constructing 
combs, rearing brood, and storing honey, to be aban- 
doned on the succeeding year for another tenement. 
One in a hundred may do it the same season, if the 
hive is filled and crowded again in time to warrant 
it. Only large early swarms do this. 
THEIR INDUSTRY. 
Industry belongs to their nature. When the flow- 
ers yield honey, and the weather is fine, they need no 
impulse from man to perform their part. When their 
tenement is supplied with all things necessary to reach 
another spring, or their store-house full, and no neces- 
sity or room for an addition, and we supply them with 
more space, they assiduously toil to fill it up. Eather 
than to waste time in idleness, during a bounteous 
yield of honey, they have been known to deposit their 
surplus in combs outside the hive, or under the stand. 
This natural industrious habit lies at the foundation 
of all the advantages in bee-keeping ; consequently 
our hives must be constructed with this end in view ; 
