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AN EASY METHOD OF 
RULE IX. 
DN Min TIPLYING COLONIES TQ ANY DESIRABLE 
: EXTENT, WITHOUT THEIR SWARMING. 
The large drawer, No. 1, should always 
he used tor this purpose. Insert slides, as in 
Rule 6, and remove the drawer containing 
bees and brood-comb, place the same in the 
chamber of an empty hive, stop the entranc- 
es of both the new and old hives, taking care 
to give them air, as in Rule 4. Live clean 
water daily, three or four days. Now let the 
bees, in both hives, have their liberty. 
REMARKS. 
This operation is both practicable and easy, 
and is of prime importance to all cultivators, 
who wish to avoid the necessity ol hiving 
them when they swarm ; and yet it will not 
prevent swarming,. except in that part ol the 
divided colony which contains the Queen at 
the time of their separation. The other part 
being compelled to make another Queen, (and 
they generally make twooi more) may swarm 
to avoid their conflict, as explained in remarks 
on Rule 2. The hive containing the old 
Queen may swarm for want ol room ; but, at 
any rate, in performing the operation, it has 
