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the string to prevent her falling. The Bees returned, 
and commenced building comb within 20 minutes. — 
The next morning, I found them clustered on the out- 
side of the Hive, as before. I again found the Queen 
on the ground. The Bees finding her confined, had 
rescued her by gnawing off the string by which she 
was tied, and site rolled out of the Hive, and the Bees 
followed her. They had made 4 pieces of comb, but 
not one Bee was inside the Hive. 1 then tied a horse 
hair around her, and introduced her into the Hive again. 
The Bees followed, and worked finely for ten days, be- 
fore I could supply them with a living Queen. 1 remov- 
ed the dead Queen and introduced a living one ; and the 
swarm filled the Hive, and made 24 lbs. of extra honey. 
In the year 1846, I had occasion to try the same ex- 
periment ; and 1 performed it with the same success, 
only 1 wasjenabled to furnish them a Queen much sooner 
than the first. Every Apiarian should pursue this course, 
if he has occasion, and has no living Queens on hand. 
It is my opinion that I injured both of these un- 
fortunate Queens in hiving them. 1 was not accus- 
tomed to using the Hiver in those days. If a man 
has bnt one swarm of Bees, he should use the Hi- 
ver; and he will never kill his Queens by Hiving. 
RULE EIGHTH. 
How you may Know a Swann is Destitute of a Queen 
As soon as it is discovered that the Queen is gone, 
Bees should be supplied with one ; for it is better to 
destroy a feeble swarm, to procure a Queen for a good 
awarm, than to suffer the good one to pine awny and 
die, and feed the feeble one through the winter. 
BeeB when deprived of their Queen, cease labor — 
fly about the Hive — return to it — run up and down it 
in great haste — chase one another about, as though in 
pursuit of a friend — but do not venture far from the 
Hive. They seem to be actuated by no ambition — they 
carry no Pollen or Bee-bread on their legs— no dead 
bees are drawn out of the Hive — no deformed Bees are 
removed from the ccIIh, and carried out — no flakes of 
