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supplied destitute swarms repeatedly. — 
When the drawer containing bees and brood 
comb is removed, the bees soon find them- 
selves destitute of a female, and immediately 
set themselves to work in constructing one or 
more royal cells. When completed, which 
is commonly within forty-eight hours, they 
remove a grub (larva) from the worker’s cell, 
place the same in the new-made Queen’s cell, 
feed it on that kind of food which is designed 
only for Queens, and in from eight to sixteen 
days they have a perfect Queen. 
As soon as the bees have safely deposited 
the grub in the new-made royal cell, the bees 
may have their liberty. Their attachment to 
their young brood, and their fidelity to their 
Queen, in any stage of its minority, is such, 
that they will never leave nor forsake them, 
and will continue all their ordinary labors, 
with as much regularity as if they had a 
perfect Queen. 
In making Queens in small boxes or draw- 
ers, the owner will not be troubled by their 
swarming the same season they are made. — 
There are so few bees in the drawer, they are 
