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EXPERIMENTS IN APIARY. 
In from two to five days the young queen will take her 
bridal flight, after which she returns to her hive and com¬ 
mences laying eggs within two or three days. 
A young, vigorous queen will lay from 2,000 to 3,000 
eggs every twenty-four hours, during the season of a good 
honey flow. 
On the 30th of June, we found fresh-laid eggs in one of 
the nuclei. The old swarm, by this time, had gained in 
strength. The queen, being a good layer, had nearly all 
the combs filled with eggs and brood in all stages of matur¬ 
ity, so that we felt safe to make a new swarm ; this was done 
on the first day of July, in the following manner: About 
noon, when the bees were flying heavy, we moved the old 
swarm about ten feet away, took the nucleus which had a 
laying queen, transferring the same, with bees and comb, into 
a new hive, and filling in with frames in which had been 
placed comb foundation. This was placed on the same stand 
where the old swarm had been ; all the bees returning from 
the field went back to their old stand, but into the new hive, 
took to their new queen kindly, and by night we had a good 
swarm, with a laying queen. 
On the second day of July, we found fresh-laid eggs in 
the other nucleus, but had to wait at least eight days before 
we could make another new swarm, which we did on the 
10th day of July, as before. 
By this time clover commenced to bloom, and the bees 
were doing their best. We found the young queens good 
and vigorous layers, so that by the twentieth day of July 
we made another swarm from our first young one, in the same 
manner as before; we also started two more nuclei, which 
had laying queens by the 10th of August. We also killed 
the queen in the original hive, for we did not know her age, 
and inserted a queen cell. 
The three young swarms by this time had done excep¬ 
tionally well. The brood chambers were full of bees, brood 
and honey, and the upper stories nearly filled, so that by the 
