MANAGEMENT OF BEES. 
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indisputable sway.’’ But if the young Queen is suffi- 
ciently guarded to prevent that immolation, the elder 
sister soon collects her followers, and seeks a new hab- 
itation, and leaves the old one to he controlled by the 
young Queen. These Queens never return to their 
native home, and the Bees following her, loose all at- 
tachment to those remaining in the Hive from whence 
they came, as soon as they enter their new domicil, and 
commence laying up their winter store. It seems 
strange to a person unaccustomed to rearing and man- 
aging Bees, yet it is nevertheless true, that Bees, after 
working for months in a hive, may come forth with a 
swarm, be hived, and placed on a bench within ten 
ieet of their old home, and after working a week in 
their new habitation, remove it; and all the bees out in 
the field of labor, on their return will fly around, and 
linger about the place, and such is their distinct nation- 
ality, that they soon give up and die in despair, and 
not one finds his way back to his old home and friends. 
This shows the necessity of placing your hive where 
you intend to have it remain through the season. You 
can remove your Bees into any part of your yard, if 
you do it before warm weather sets in — say in March 
or April. I would recommend to all Bee Cultivators, 
this method of managing stands of Bees: Change their 
position every spring, before the working season com- 
mences, and good will result from it. All good Farm- 
ers know that it is beneficial to change stock, from 
place to place. It seems to inspire them with new life 
and ambition. 
Second swarms will generally make their appearance 
within ten or fiften days after the first swarm. If they 
do not come out within nineteen days, you need not 
expect them through the season. The probability is, 
that the Queen has disposed of all the younger queens, 
and being invested with full government, remains con- 
tented. 
It is impossible to give any rule by which to deter- 
mine the exact time of the first swarming. In the old 
fashioned Box Hive, you can calculate near the time, 
by the quantity of Bees hanging on the outside of the 
