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satisfied one of the great causes of bees dying (or run- 
ning out, as it is called,) is the combs become old and 
filled with bee-bread, the cellB become small from fre- 
quent breeding in them, and unless some way is provid- 
ed to renew their combs your bees will die out because 
young bees enough cannot be reared to supply the al- 
ready decreasing swarm. The space being too limited 
for raising young, they decrease faster than they in- 
crease. The movable Comb Hive is the only remedy in 
this case, as any or all the combs can be removed at 
pleasure and empty frames substituted in their stead, 
which they will readily fill up with new combs and hon- 
ey if done in.thc proper time. The best course to pur- 
sue with them in the old style ol hives, is to break out 
a part of the old comb and let them build new. To pre- 
vent your bees leaving for the forest, in the old style of 
hives, immediately after hiving them move them to the 
stand where they are to remain through the season, as 
scouts have already gone in pursuit of a netv home, as 
will be seen in a short time after moving the newly hiv- 
ed swarm away from the spot, bees that have been away 
to find some place in which they can lake up their abode 
will be observed for hours after returning to the place 
where the swarm alighted, as if to make known the re- 
sult of their journeys and pilot the clustering swarm to 
their new residence. 
Any other remedy in tho common box hive 1 do not 
know of. But one thing I do know — if the Queen can 
not leave with the swarm the bees obey a never failing 
law, and will not leave the hive but to return. A knowC 
edge of this was the starting point for the invention of 
my Patent Regulator by which I imprison the Queen,, 
yet do not in the least interfere with the passage of tho 
worker bees, consequently no swarm will ever leave thu 
hive. . 
