ARTIFICIAL SWARMING. 
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One queen can be made to supply several hives with 
brood, while they are constantly engaged in raising spare 
queens. Deprive two colonies, 1 and 2, at intervals of a 
week, each of its queen, using these queens for artificial 
swarms. As soon as the royal cells in 1 are old enough 
for use, remove them, and give 1 a queen from another 
hive, 3. When the royal cells in 2 are removed, this 
queen may be taken from 1 — where she will have laid 
abundantly — and given to 2. By this time, the queen- 
cells in 3 being sealed over, may be removed, and the 
queen restored to her own stock. She has thus made one 
circuit, and supplied 1 and 2 with eggs ; and after replen- 
ishing her own hive, she may be sent again on her per- 
ambulating mission. By this device, I can obtain, from a 
few stocks, a large number of queens. 
A few days after a nucleus is formed, it should be ex- 
amined, and if royal cells are not begun, or there are no 
larvae in them, the bees must be shaken from the comb, 
which should then be exchanged for another. 
Bees sometimes commence queen-cells, which, in a few 
distinction. Anatomical observations prove that the stomach is not tho samo : ex- 
periments liavo ascertained that ono of the species cannot fulfill all the functions 
shared among tho workers of a hive. Wo pninted those of each class with different 
colors, in ordor to study their proceedings; and these were not interchanged. In 
another experiment, after supplying a hive, deprived of a quoen, with brood and 
pollen, wo saw tho small bees quickly ooouplod in nutrition of the larvie, wbilo 
those of tho wax-working class neglected them. Small bees also product) wax, but 
in a very inferior quantity to what is elaborated by tho real wax workers." 
Now, ns Huber's statements ha vo proved to bo uncommonly reliable, perhaps 
wnen boos refuse to cluster on the brood-comb, to roar a now queen, it is because 
some of tho conditions necessary for success are wanting. Hither there may not 
bo enough wax-workers to onlarge the cells, or uurses to take charge of the larvte. 
If Huber hail possessed the samo faeilillos for observation with Dr. Dunhcff (100 
page till), lie would, probably, have come to tho samo conclusions. 
If any imagine that tho careful experiments required to establish facts upon tho 
solid basis of demonstration, arc easily made, lot tliom attempt to prove or disprove 
tho truth of either of these conjectures; nnd they will probably find the task 
more difficult titan to cover whole reams of paper with caroloss assertions. 
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