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Ar[tificial] Swarm [illegible] If any hive swarms naturally, then the 
young queen when sealed may be taken,
all but one, to make Ar[tificial] swarms. 
Young Queens - how preserved. If taken away and placed under 
tumblers, gauze wire might prevent the queens 
from destroying each other and yet allow heat 
from the hive to mature them. Gauze wire might allow bees 
to enter and yet be too fine for queens to pass through. 
Ar[tificial] Swarms. By sliding the hives along may they not be [formed?] 
with the greatest [facility?] A sheet or a suitable cover 
of a different color from the hive should be put on the hive shut up the better to 
deceive the bees. 
Quarreling. To prevent if hives are moved and different colonies are to be
united some recommend to keep the hive shut until a very 
large number of the strange bees are collected outside, to feed them without and 
then allow them to enter. When bees come home loaded and attempt to enter the 
hive placed on their stand I have observed that they are seldom killed, also that a 
new swarm seldom kills those added in this way. 

Ar[tificial] swarms for sale. If swarms are to be disposed of and carried some distance
say 2 or 3 miles from the apiary, by having spare queens on hand hatched or unhatched, 
swarms may be supplied to order at any time in the working season. A few combs may be taken, 
say one or two from a hive, and bees may be taken from a number of hives, by lifting out the bars 
and loading them into a box or empty hive. Let the bees remain on the bars and shut them up 
at once in the hive into which they are inserted. Towards dark shake out the bees from the box in front 
of this hive and they will readily ascent. Shut them up and remove them next day. If no queen 
can be given them and there is no drone brood, or drones, if removed when no swarms are near,
the fecundation of the young queens cannot be relied on. In this way a very large number of swarms can 
be made. A sufficient number of combs and bees for a swarm might at once be transferred. 
As soon as a comb is taken out of a hive the bees upon [illegible] will begin to fill themselves with honey. 
The comb should be placed in the new hive before they begin to fly. Bees gorged with honey will not
quarrel, hence they may be taken from different hives. If there are not enough bees the hive 
towards sunset might be set for a few minutes on the stand of a populous one. 