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Ability, Sinner's, to do his duty, true method of preaching. Chr. Spec. Vol. 7, page 22. 
Artificial Swarms. A knowledge of the best way to multiple 
colonies by artificial swarming indispensable. 
The discoveries of Huber and others laid 
a foundation for artificial swarming, but for the 
last half century no advances have been 
made until of late. Nothing can 
be done in this way without bar 
hives. 
Aristotle. - History of Insects, Book 5. The opinion of some in 
his time was that the King was a female, the drones males. 
He noticed that drones were produced in hives without a queen, but not workers. 
A kind of bees called robbers - or thieves - black, hard bellies,- that 
some contract their entrances to keep the drones out, that dry weather is 
most favorable for honey, wet for swarms; that honey requires time to 
thicken it - about twenty days; that the eggs of a drone and worker alike; 
that bees eat the worms if injured; that the worm leaves a deposits. 
Virgil is by no means a mere copier. 
February 21, 1852. Take half the combs from a well-stocked hive, and all of the 
bees; place the new hive on the stand of the old one, place at once the old one 
on the stand of another good stock moved. In this way a powerful swarm 
obtained and no risk of any contention. The colony half full of comb 
ought to have a young queen given to them if none are in a state of forwardness 
in their cells. The old colony transferred will not probably swarm and in this way 
the three stocks will be honey-producers. (23rd. s) Take half of the comb with the 
bees shaken off for the hive to be put in place of a strong stock; or, take 
all the bees with half of the comb for No. 1, and then take part of the comb from the transferred 
stock with its bees, for No. 2; or all of the bees with only two or three combs 
for the new one and the hive with the rest of the comb for No. 2. This will require but
one hive to be opened. These methods ought to be tested to ascertain their relative merits. 
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