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sound may usually be heard about eighteen hours 
before swarming. Third swarms may be expected 
in about three days after the second swarm, which 
should always be returned either to the old stock, 
or to the second swarm. This may be easily done 
by taking away their queen ; and by placing them 
at the entrance of either hive, they eagerly enter. 
One chief cause or concomitant of swarming, 
says Huber, apparently consists in the agitation of 
the queen. She is suddenly affected, hastily trav- 
erses the combs, abandoning that slow and steady 
progression which she ordinarily exhibits ; her 
agitation is communicated to the bees ; they crowd 
to the outlet of the hive, and the queen escaping 
first, they haste to follow her. 
Commonly, the whole take but a short flight, 
and the queen having alighted, they all cluster 
around her. This constitutes the new swarm. 
Huber states that the agitation of the female ex- 
cites the workers, which increases their animal 
heat, and raises the temperature of the hive to such 
an insupportable degree, that they are compelled 
to leave it. On issuing from the hive, bees appear 
to have no object in view. 
After rising in the air, it is commonly some 
shrub or tree that arrests their progress, and when- 
ever the queen alights, the bees will cluster around 
her. They hang in this situation, usually, until 
some cavity or hollow tree has been selected for 
them to inhabit, when they loose their hold, fly 
high in the air, and direct themselves in a straight 
line to their new habitation. 
THE BEST CONSTRUCTED HIVE. 
Hall’s Patent Self-protecting Hive is to be pre- 
ferred above all others, particularly for an out- 
