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price, worth 372 dollars, which, added to our stock 
of bees, is 1972 dollars, — a very handsome capital 
acquired by judicious management and a very 
small amount of labor. 
We have now enlarged our stock of bees to as 
many hives as would be profitable to keep in one 
apiary. We are now prepared to sell thirty stocks 
of bees every subsequent season, at the selling 
price, (not at the real worth,) which is about $10 
the hive, in the Self-protecting Hive, amounting to 
$300, together with 900 pounds of virgin honey, 
at 20 cents, amounting to $180, making a yearly 
increase of $480. And this may be done by the 
man that owns one acre of land, as well as by the 
man that owns one hundred acres. 
The best and most cogent reason given for 
second swarms is, that after the old queen has led 
out a swarm, the remaining bees finding them- 
selves without a leader, prepare to erect royal cells, 
and raise young queens to repair their loss. They 
select female eggs, (which the old queen always 
leaves the hive abundantly supplied with, on lead- 
ing out a swarm,) and place them in the royal 
cells, feed them royal jelly, and in about twelve 
days are supplied with one young queen, or more. 
If more than one queen is produced, the queen that 
first leaves the cell, often leads out a second swarm, 
to avoid a battle with its expected rival. Second 
swarms usually appear in about twelve days after 
the first swarm. 
It may be very accurately ascertained whether 
a second swarm may be expected, by hearkening 
at the entrance of the hive the evening before the 
swarm appears. If a second swarm is to issue, a 
distinct sound will be heard from each of the 
queens, consisting of monotonous notes, replying 
to each other, called sounding the alarm. This 
