AN EASY METHOD OF 
RULE VIII. 
ON SUPPLYING SWARMS DESTITUTE OF A 
QUEEN, WITH ANOTHER. 
Take the drawer from the hive, which wa3 
S laced there according to Rule 7, and insert 
le same into the chamber of the hive to be 
supplied ; observing Rule 6 in the use of tho 
slides; — or remove a box containing blood 
comb as above described, and the bees will 
make one for themselves ; — or take a Queen 
from any small swarm, and introduce her a* 
the mouth of the hive. 
REMARKS. 
Colonies destitute of a Queen may be sup- 
plied with another the moment it is found 
they have none; which is known only by 
their actions. 
Bees, when deprived of their female sove- 
reign, cease their labors ; no polen or bee- 
bread is seen on their legs ; no ambition seems 
to actuate their movements; no dead bees 
arc drawn out; no deformed bees, in the 
various stagesof their minority, arc extracted, 
and dragged out of their cells, and dropped 
down about the hive, as is usual among all 
healthy and prosperous colonies. 
