SWARMING. 
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the night may be often found on the floor-board in the 
morning. I have found a dozen by one stock. Should 
the stock send out but one swarm, they may be found 
about the time, or a little before you would listen for 
the piping. But should after swarms come out, they 
will, or may be found the next morning after it is 
decided that no more are to issue. It is very seldom 
that all the queens reared are needed. They make 
it a rule, as far as they have control, to go on safe 
principles, by having a little more than just enough. 
When several such bodies are thrown out, and no 
piping is heard, no further swarming need be ex- 
pected. But should you hear the piping a day or 
two after finding a dead queen, you may yet look for 
the swarm. 
THEORY DOUBTED. 
It is stated that when the bees decide an after 
swarm shall issue, the first queen matured is not al- 
lowed to leave her cell, but kept a prisoner there, and 
fed until wanted to go forth with the swarm. This 
may be true in some cases (though not satisfactorily 
proved), but I am quite sure it is not in all. 
When she is confined to her cell, how does she as- 
certain the presence of others? By leaving the cell, 
this knowledge is easily obtained. Huber says she 
does, and is “ enraged at the existence of others, and 
endeavors to destroy them while yet in the cell, which 
the workers will not allow ; this is so irritating to her 
majesty that she utters this peculiar sound.” Also 
second and third swarms may contain several queens, 
