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Dr. Evans says: 
“On books, deep poring ye pale sons of toil, 
Who -waste in studious trance the midnight oil; 
Say, can ye simulate with all your rules? 
Drawn, or from Grecian or Gothic schools? 
This artless frame, instinct her simple guide, 
A heaven-taught insect baffles all your pride; 
Not all your marshaled orbs that ride so high. 
Proclaim more loud a present Deity, 
Than the nice symmetry of these small cells, 
Where on each angle genuine science dwells." 
As bees carry on their bodies the pollen or fertilizing dust, they 
aid wonderfully in the impregnation of plants while prying into 
blossoms in search of honey or bee-bread. In genial seasons, fruit 
will often set abundantly, but many springs are so unpropitious 
that during the critical period of blossoming, the sun shines only 
for a few hours, so that those only can reasonably expect a remun¬ 
erating crop, whose trees are all murmuring with the pleasant 
hum of bees. 
Extensive fruit-grow'ers report that many times fruit was a very 
uncertain crop, a cold storm frequently prevailing when the trees 
were in blossom, and they have observed that if the sun shone only 
for a few hours, the trees secured a crop. Then all gentlemen, and 
ladies too, should learn the science and improved art of agriculture, 
and keep bees to gather the delicious nectar which would else be 
lost on the desert air, and also to mingle the pollen of flowers, for 
fruit will flourish all the more, when flowers mate by rifled store. 
And they who with health would live at ease, should cultivate both 
fruit and bees. The creator has admirably adapted these insect so¬ 
cieties to all classes of mankind, and this adaptation speaks elo¬ 
quently of his wisdom, goodness and care for the welfare of his 
creatures. In bee-keeping, as in all other pursuits, we must first 
understand our business and then proceed upon the good old maxim 
that the hand of the diligent maketh rich.” Artificial swarming, 
colonizing, and dividing, so fascinating in theory, would always be 
practiced if successful. 1 will give only one of many modes of forced 
swarming which is a success and depends on three conditions. 
First. Time. 
Second. Condition of the colony. 
