ARTIFICIAL SWARMING. 
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One queen can be made to supply several hives witn 
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 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 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 ctays after 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. Anatomical observations prove that the stomach Is not tho same; ex¬ 
periments have ascertained that one of the species cannot fulfill all the funcUons 
shared among the workers of a hive. We painted thoso of each class with different 
colors, in order to study their proceedings; nnd those were not interchanged. In 
another experiment, after supplying a hive, deprived of a queen, with brood nnd 
pollen, we saw tho small bees quickly occupied In nutrition of tho larvffi, whilo 
those of the wax-working class neglected them. Small bees also produco wax, but 
In a very inferior quantity to what is elaborated by the real wax workers.” 
Now, as Huber’s statements have proved to be uncommonly reliable, perhaps 
" nen bees refuse to cluster on the brood-comb, to rear a now queen, it Is because 
some of tho conditions necessary for success are wanting. Either there may not 
be enough wax-workers to enlarge the cells, or nurses to take charge of the larva). 
If Huber had possessed the same facilities for observation with Dr. Dunkcff (see 
page i94). he would, probably, have come to the same conclusions. 
If any imagine 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; and they will probably find tho task 
more difflen't than to cover whole reams of paper with careless assertions 
