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antipathy to some persons than to others. They wilt 
not permit some persons to approach them without 
attempting to show resentment, and at the same time 
they will permit others to approach and even handle 
them, without making any effort to sting them. 
There must be a cause for this partiality, and without 
doubt it is owing to the exhalations, which havo a dif- 
ferent scent, in different persons. 
RULE NINETEENTH. 
Method of making swarms from extra Bees. 
The experiment denoted by the above caption, I 
have frequently tried with much profit and success. — 
Some may not approve of it, hut 1 give it for the bene- 
fit of those who may see fit to put it in practice. 
It is frequently the case that during the swarming 
season, some quarts of Rees will haug in a cluster on 
the outside of the Box hive, anti remain in that condi- 
tion for weeks, and sometimes for months, until cold 
weather drives them into the Hive, providing there is 
sufficient room, and the cause of their not swarming is 
not known. Now if any plan can be contrived to en- 
gage these Bees in labor, and prevent their remaining 
idle so long, it is worthy of attention. In the year 
1842, I had a swarm in this condition, and after they 
had remained so for the most of the swarming season, 
I tried the experiment. I prepared a clean Hive to re- 
ceive a new swarm, and after looking some time, 1 
found an extra Queen among some of my second 
swarms. I immediately carried her to the new Hive, 
being careful that she did not make her escape before 
I could introduce the Bees. I then brushed them from 
the old box Hive into a box, and carried them to the 
Hive and poured them in. They soon gathered in a 
cluster at the top of the Hive. In a few moments 1 
examined them, and found the colony too small. 1 
gathered a few more from another cluster, on another 
Hive, and put them with the first, and in a few mo- 
ments they mingled together. They commenced rear- 
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