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to tho mother-stock, instead of stopping short witli an 
increase of one fi’oin two, may he expanded to any rate 
of increase that can possibly bo secured; while it has this 
admirable peculiarity, that each step in advance is entirely 
independent of any that are subsequently to be made; 
and the process may be stopped at any time when forage 
fails, or the bee-keeper chooses—from any cause—to carry 
it no further. 
If it is used for doubling the stocks, proceed as follows: 
Let a fertile young queen be given to A (p. 180) as soon 
as it is forced, and in ten days force a swarm from i>, 
which I shall call D. Put 1) on the stand of JB, and 
ifter removing ^ to a new place, set £ where A stood, 
giving to Ji a. fertile young queen. If another colony, 
E, is to be formed, make it in the same way, by forcing 
A, and transposing with li; and so continue, by the 
transposition of A and J5 — forcing the new colony 
alternately from each—to make successively, at intervals 
of about ten days, G-, II, &>o. ; A and B being sup¬ 
plied with a fertile queen as often as they are forced. 
To make this process more intelligible, let A and B 
represent the first positions, in the Apiary, of the original 
stocks: 
Original stocks. A, B. 
Position after 1st forcing, (7, A, B. 
“ “ 2d “ (7, B, D, A. 
“ “ 3d “ C, A, D, E, B. 
“ “ 4th “ C, B, B, E, E, A. 
“ “ 5th “ C, A, D, E, F, G, B. 
“ “ 6th “ G, B, B, E, E, G, II, A. 
By looking at this table,* it will be seen that ‘.he new 
• The table is not Intended to recommend setting hives In rows, close together, 
A and B may bo anywhere in the Apiary, and />, os far apart os is at all 
ieairable. (See Chap, on Loss of Queen.) 
