Archive image from page 250 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( PROCESS OF FORMING ARTIFICIAL SWARMS. 225 accompanying fumi- gating machine under the hive, first support- ing it by four wedges o
Archive image from page 250 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( PROCESS OF FORMING ARTIFICIAL SWARMS. 225 accompanying fumi- gating machine under the hive, first support- ing it by four wedges of wood. The smoke, which should not be very intense, will soon drive the bees from the lower hive into the upper one : some judgment is, however, here necessary to determine the exact period when a sufficient number of bees have ascended into the upper hive, which ought to amount at least to about five or six hundred, when the fumigating pan should be re- moved, the lower hive returned to its original position, and the upper one taken away. It is now, however, that the most important and difficult part of the experiment is to be decided ; which is, whether the queen be in the upper hive or the lower. This problem may certainly be solved by waiting about eight or twelve hours, when the condition of the bees in the upper hive will at once determine the absence or the presence of the queen. If the former be the case, the bees will not have commenced the construction of their combs; they will appear in a wild and agitated state, running about all parts of the hive as if in search of something, nor will they ever cluster at the top, as is always the case, when they have a queen with them. In order, however, to ascertain at once the presence of the queen in the upper hive, a slight fumigation may be given the bees, so as to stupify them, and an examination be immediately made; and if the fact be ascertained that the queen is amongst them, the new hive must be removed to the distance
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