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serting its abode the second day after being hived, settled 
upon a tree. On examining the abandoned hive, five 
young queens were found lying dead on its bottom- 
board. The swarm was returned, and, the next morning, 
two more dead queens were found. As the colony after¬ 
wards prospered, eight queens, at least, must have left the 
parent-stock in a single swarm ! 
Young queens, whose ovaries are not burdened with 
eggs, are much quicker on the wing than old ones, and 
frequently fly much farther from the parent-stock before 
they alight. After the departure of the second swarm, 
the oldest remaining queen leaves her cell; and if another 
swarm is to come forth, piping will still be heard ; and so 
before the issue of each swarm after the first. It will 
sometimes be heard for a short time after the issue of the 
second swarm, even when the bees do not intend to swarm 
again. The third swarm usually leaves the hive on the 
second or third day after the second swarm, and the 
others, at intervals of about a day. I once had five 
swarms from one stock, in less than two weeks. In warm 
latitudes, more than twice this number of swarms have 
been known to issue, in one season, from a single stock. 
In after-swarming, the queen sometimes re-enters the 
hive, after having appeared on the alighting-board. If 
she docs this once, she will be apt to do it repeatedly, and 
the swarm, in each instance, will return to the mother- 
hive. 
In the Apiary of a friend in Matamoras, when his first 
swarm issued, there was no tree for it to alight on. The 
wind was so strong, that the bees did not leave the vicin¬ 
ity of their hives, but began to settle on a hive near their 
own. Although the queen was secured, with a portion of 
her colony, a large part of the swarm entered the adjoin¬ 
ing stocks. When these stocks swarmed, although a tree 
