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AN EASY METHOD OF 
lose one swarm in the wanton destruction of 
eggs, larva and chrysalises, and if it is done 
after the first swarm leaves, before a Queen 
is heard, he will get the bees without a Queen, 
because the old Queen leaves the hive with 
the first swarm, and another is not usually 
batched sooner than seven, eight, or nine days 
after first swarming: and if transferring is 
delayed until the swarming season is through, 
the bees will not make a sufficient quantity 
of comb to cluster in ; nor honey enough to 
sustain them through the following winter. 
I would not be understood to approve of 
transferring from the old box until t}ie combs 
are so old as to produce dwarfs. 
