AKTIFICIAL 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 
Bwarins. 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 omi 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, fi'om a 
few stocks, a large number of queens. 
A few days aft* a nucleus is formed, it should be ex¬ 
amined, and if royal cells are not begun, or there are no 
larva; 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. AnatomlcM obscn atlons prove that the stomach is not the same: ex¬ 
periments have ascerttiinod that one of the species cannot fulfill all the functions 
Bliiired among the workers of a hive. W© 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 Binall bees quickly occnplod In nutrition of the larv®, whilo 
those of the wa.x-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, as Huber's statements have proved to bo uncommonly reliable, perhapa 
noen hoes refuse to cluster on the brood-comb, to rear a new queen, it is becauso 
lonie of the conditions necessary for success are wanting. Either there may not 
be enough wax-workors to enlarge the cells, or nurses to take charge of the larv®. 
If Huber had po.sscssod the same facilities for observation with Dr. Dunhetf (ie« 
page tOl\ he would, probably, have come to the same conolusions. 
If any tinaglno that the careful experiments required to establish facts upon the 
solid basis of demonstration, are easily made, lot them attempt to prove or disprove 
the truth of either of these conjectures; nndthoywiUprobablyflndthota.sk 
wore dlflloult than to cover whole reams of paper witli careless assertions. 
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