. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 78 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAi^, boys some points. I have on two occa- sions found two swarms so near tliat the comb of one intersected that of the other. But a pretty sight was a swarm which had built four lines of comb, 4 inches deep by 2}>4 inches, and 10 feet long, including brood and the lower end of old comb. It was built between the studding of a cheese-factory. Bakersfield, Calif. W. Sf arming Witliout Haying Bulll Cells. Query 906.—Bees often swarm ?without queen-cells after the apiarist has cut them out. but
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 78 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAi^, boys some points. I have on two occa- sions found two swarms so near tliat the comb of one intersected that of the other. But a pretty sight was a swarm which had built four lines of comb, 4 inches deep by 2}>4 inches, and 10 feet long, including brood and the lower end of old comb. It was built between the studding of a cheese-factory. Bakersfield, Calif. W. Sf arming Witliout Haying Bulll Cells. Query 906.—Bees often swarm ?without queen-cells after the apiarist has cut them out. but do they ever swarm without having built queen-cells previously ?—Bee-man. Perhaps not.—Eugene Secor. Yes, but very rarely.—P. H. Elwood. Very, very rarely.—J. H. Larrabee. I don't know. Possibly not.—C. C. Miller. Yes, but hardly ever.—Mrs. J. N. Heater. Yes, sometimes, but not usually.— Dadant & Son. Very seldom, unless they are starving. —C. H. Dibbern. I have never had any do it that I knew of.—J as. A. Stone. Yes, I have known them to do so many times.—J. E. Pond. Yes, I have known thera to do so fre- quently.—James A. Green. I have seen several cases when they have done so.—H. D. Cutting. It has never come under my observa- tion that they did.—S. I. Freeborn. Yes, they do if they have much Italian blood in their veins.—R. L. Taylor. Sametimes bees will swarm without any cells being started.—E. France. Oh, my ! yes ; lots, and lots, and lots of times, Mr. Bee-man.—A. B. Mason. Not unless it is from starvation, or some abnormal cause.— Occasionally, when the swarming fever is on, but not often.—G. M. Doolittle. Yes ; but such is abnormal, and in- variably has its cause.—W. M. Barnum. I have had bees to swarm without having started queen-cells at all.—M. Mahin. So far as I have observed, the queen- cells always precede normal sWarming.— A. J. Cook. Italians do, sometimes, when there is a fine flow of honey, coming
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