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 arc 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 
larval 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 provo that the stomach is not tho samo : ex- 
periments have ascertained that one of the species cannot fulfill nil the functions 
shared among the workers of a hive. Wo painted those of each class with different 
colors, in order to study their proceedings; and these were not interchanged. In 
another experiment, after supplying a hive, deprived of a queen, with brood and 
pollen, wo saw the small bees quickly occupied In nutrition of tho larva-, while 
those of tho wax-working class neglected them. Small bees also produce wax, but 
In a very Inferior quantity to what is elaborated by the real wax workers-.” 
Now, ns Huber's statements have proved to be uncommonly reliable, perhaps 
* uen bees refuse to cluster on the brood-comb, to roar a new queen, it is because 
Some of Ihe conditions necessary for success arc wanting. Either there may not 
ho enough wax-workers to enlarge the cells, or nurses to take charge of the larva). 
If Huber hud possessed the samo facilities for observation with Dr. Donhrff (soe 
Pago 194). ho would, probably, have come to the same conclusions. 
If any Imagine that tho careful experiments required to establish fncts upon tho 
solid basis of demonstration, are easily made, let them attempt to prove or disprove 
the truth of cither of these conjectures ; and they- will probably find tho task 
more dlfflon't than to cover whole reams of paper with careless assertions 
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