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AN 1ASY METHOD OF 
being heavily laden with eggs, and too feeble 
to fly with her young colony; in which case 
the bees return to their parent stock in a few 
minutes. In fact all occurrences of this kind 
originate in the inability of the Queen. If 
she returns to the old stock, the swarm usu- 
ally comes out again the next day, if the 
weather is favorable. If the Queen is too 
feeble to return, and the apiarian neglects to 
look her up, and restore her to her colony 
again, (which he ought to do,) the bees will 
not swarm again until they have made an- 
other, or are supplied, whi'ch may be done 
immediately by giving them any spare Queen. 
The Queen is sometimes lost, in conse- 
quence of the young brood being too far ad- 
vanced at the time of the departure of the 
old Queen with her swarm. She may be- 
come barren or diseased, and die of old age, 
and all the grubs (larva) may have advanced 
so far towards the perfect fly at the time of 
her death, that their nature could not be 
changed to a Queen before the bees had be- 
come apprised of her true condition, or she 
may be lost at second swarming, as explained 
