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THE HIVE A XL HONEY-BEE. 
not guard against robbing, will seriously impair the value 
of his stocks, and entail upon himself much useless and 
vexatious labor. Beware of demoralizing bees, by tempt¬ 
ing them to rob each other ! 
In an Apiary where hives very unlike in size, shape, 
and color, are crowded together , artificial operations will 
often be exceedingly hazardous, as the bees will be con¬ 
tinually liable to enter the wrong hives. If the stocks 
must be kept very close together, even if the hives are all 
of the same color and pattern, it will be best to carry 
to a second Apiary, either the forced swarms, or the 
mother-stocks from which they were made. 
The bee-keeper has already been reminded that caution 
is needed in giving to bees a stranger-queen. Huber thus 
describes the way in which a new queen is usually re¬ 
ceived by a hive: 
“ If another queen is introduced into the hive within 
twelve hours after the removal of the reigning one, they 
surround, seize, and keep her a very long time captive, in 
an impenetrable cluster, and she commonly dies either 
from hunger or want of air. If eighteen hours elapse 
before the substitution of a stranger-queen, she is treated, 
at first, in the same way, but the bees leave her sooner, 
nor is the surrounding cluster so close; they gradually 
disperse, and the queen is at last liberated; she moves 
languidly, and sometimes expires in a few minutes. Some, 
however, escape in good health, and afterwards reign in 
the hive. If twenty-four hours elapse before substituting 
the stranger-queen, she will be well received, from the 
moment of her introduction. 
“ Reaumur affirms, that, should the original queen be 
removed, and another introduced, this new one will be 
perfectly well received from the beginning * * * He in- 
