ARTIFICIAL swarming. 
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to the mother-stock, instead of Stopping short with an 
increase of one from two, may be expanded to any rate 
of increase that can possibly be 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 B, 
which I shall call I). Put I) on the stand of B, and 
after removing A to a new place, set B where A stood, 
giving to I) a fertile young queen. If another colony, 
E, is to be formed, make it in the same way, by forcing 
A, and transposing with B; and so continue, by the 
transposition of A and B — forcing the new colony 
alternately from each—to make successively, at intervals 
of about ten days, F, G, II, &c. ; 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, C, A, B. 
2d “ C, B, D, A. 
3d “ C, A, D, E, B. 
4th “ C, B, D, E, F, A. 
5th “ C, A, D, E, F, G, B. 
6th “ C, B, I), E, F, G, II, A. 
By looking at this table,* it will be seen that the new 
* The table Is not Intended to recommend setting hives in rows, close together. 
A and B may be anywhere in the Apiary, and C y Z>, E , as far apart as is at all 
desirable. (See Chap, on Loss of Queen.) 
