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it until the bees are just commencing to make honey the next 
spring. The combs will then be stronger, and being well 
emptied of honey, will be less likely to break and drown the 
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 bive, all the brood and nicest of the 
combs can be fitted into it, soas 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 Italian 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 bees 
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 tan 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 tlierea re 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 
the fifteenth. But after the seventeenth day, no more swarms 
need be looked for that season, as all the young queens will 
be hatched 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 aud 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 the 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 
may not get out and destroy each other, as they are certain 
