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them to one of the old stocks ; they will immediately 
enter without contention, and issue again in about nine 
days, or as soon as a young queen is matured to go 
with them. There may be an exception to this, of one 
in twenty. I would have recommended this course in 
all cases of the kind, but there will be a loss of time 
for the bees in the old stock ; because they are apt to 
be rather idle, even when they might labor in the 
boxes ; and here there is a loss of some eight or ten 
days. The collections of a good swarm may be esti- 
mated at least one pound a day, (often two or three.) 
A swarm that just fills the hive, would make at least 
ten pounds box-honey, if it could have been located 
ten days earlier. Still another method may be adopted 
when you have a very small swarm, one that is not 
likely to fill the hive, and has not been hived more 
than two or three days. A third of your two swarms 
may be put in with that ; taking care, as before, not to 
let your only queen go with them. 
METHOD OF UNITING. 
The manner of doing it is very simple ; get them in 
a hive as before directed, and jar them out in front of 
the one you wish them to enter, or invert it, setting 
the other over, and let them run up. 
WHEN CARE IS NECESSARY. 
Except on the day of swarming, care is necessary 
not to introduce a small number with a large swarm; 
they are liable to be destroyed. The danger is much 
greater than to put together about an equal number, 
or a large number put in with a few. The day that 
