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Artificial Swarms. 
Original position. [drawing: hive position 1, 3, 2]
[drawing: hive position 4, 3, 5]
1st day [drawing: hive position blank]
2nd day [drawing: hive position 3]
[drawing: hive position 1, 2]
3rd day [drawing: hive position 4, 3, 5]
[drawing: hive position 1, 2]. 
Artificial Swarming
continued on the same plan
[drawing: hive position 8, 9]
[drawing: hive position 4, 3, 5]
[drawing: hive position 1, 2]
[drawing: hive position 6, 7]
The number of 
A[rtificial] swarms 
will depend upon
the productiveness 
of the season, 
food supplies,
etc. , etc. 
When 1, 2, are increased enough to form another
swarm, remove them from the stand, take 
comb from them for 4, 5, and set 4, 5, in 
their places. When enough have left 1, 2, shut 
them up with water. Next day remove 4, 5, shut 
up with water; replace 1, 2, and open. See that 
they do not enter 3. 3rd day open 4, 5, shut 
up 1, 2, with water. Next day open all. 
If they do not seem to be familiar with 
their new homes, the alternate shutting and 
opening may require to be continued longer. 
If those whose position has been slightly altered 
are fed when opened a little at the mouth 
of the hive, so as to excite them to active 
flying, they will become accustomed the 
earlier to their new place, as bees communicate 
on the wing. In no case should 
we devolve upon them (if we mean to 
rely upon them for stock hives) the work of 
raising queens from the egg or young worm, as 
they will lose so much time that before the 
young queen's [crossed out: eggs are young] brood are mature
they will have become so much reduced 
in numbers as not to be able to take care 
of all her eggs and nothing but vexation 
will be the result. They should, if possible, be 
furnished with laying queens, especially 
the one first made and from which the 
honey harvest is to be expected. If laying 
queens can not be had, ar[tificial] queens sealed and 
almost ready to emerge must be given. 
This shifting plan may be tried side by side with the plan of 
making up a swarm from a number of colonies. 