ARTIFICIAL SWARMING 
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from that of A — and uncover the holes in the bottom- 
board of C, so that the bees may pass from A tc C. A 
number of the young bees, as they go out to work, will 
use the upper entrance, so that when a colony is driven 
from A, and the mother-stock is put in place of C, it will 
have the requisite number of adhering bees: the forced 
swarm being put into C, and taking the stand of A, will 
secure, as it ought, the most of the mature bees. In a 
few days, the upper hive may be set down close to the 
other, and gradually removed to any convenient distance, 
and its entrance made to face in any direction. The same 
process may be repeated, at intervals, with the mother- 
stock, until as many new colonies are formed as may be 
desired.* If the Apiarian does not aim at a very rapid 
increase, he can take from the mother-stock, in forcing it, 
two or three of its combs which are best filled with 
sealed brood, so that the artificial swarm will have recruits 
before its new brood matures. 
If the new colony is forced by removing the frames 
(p. 165), the bees may be shaken on a sheet directly in 
front of A, and allowed to enter it again; the combs 
being all transferred to (7, unless the bee-keeper wishes 
to return a few to the parent-stock. 
With a fertile queen, a new colony may be foimed by 
simply reversing the positions of A and C, when the bees 
are in full flight; and after the lapse of a few days, if C 
is weaker than A, the position of the colonics may be 
again reversed : or A and C may be reversed, end for 
end , without lifting one from the other ; or the comb 
containing the queen may be left in A, and the others 
♦ I ft ml, by referring to my Journal, that I dovisod this method in the 8ummer 
of 1354, when using frames in hives which, like Dzierzon's, opened at both ends. 
I soon ascertained that such hives— even with my frames— did not give suitable 
facilities for managing bees. 
