When such is the state of the hive, the facility of forming an artificial swarm with a moveable frame hive is a decided advantage. The best time for performing the operation is about ten o'clock in the morning of a fine summer's day. The following directions should be carried out:--place ready a counter or bench that is firm and strong, and which has space on it for the inhabited--or rather the over-inhabited--frame hive and the empty one, which is about to be made the receptacle of a separate stock. The operator having on bee-dress and the other appliances ready, may now open the hive as before described, and proceed to take out the frames, carefully examining both sides of each comb to find the queen: she is generally in the centre of the hive, so that it is not always needful to take out all the ten frames. As they are examined, the frames may be put into the empty hive, and when the object of the bee-master's search is found, he must carefully remove the frame containing her majesty, and may place it temporarily in the empty hive at one end by itself. Next he must proceed to put the frames back into the old hive, closing up the vacancy caused by the removal of the comb with the queen on it, and leave the empty frame at the end. Then he may place the frame containing the queen--with the few bees that may be upon it--in the centre of the empty hive; then putting all the other frames in, and replacing the lid, the bee-master will place this hive in the exact position occupied by the old stock. The bees that are on the wing will go to the old spot, and finding the queen there, they will rally round her and very soon form a sufficient number to constitute a swarm; comb building will at once begin, the frames will in a week or so be filled, and a satisfactory stock will thus be established. By doing this at the right time, just before the bees are about to swarm, or when there are many drones, all the trouble of watching and waiting for them is saved. Mr. Woodbury claims the honour of having originated this mode of artificial swarming; subsequently Mr. Langstroth and others have described a similar process, no doubt originally, as far as they knew, therefore still more useful to us as a confirmation of the value of Mr. Woodbury's discovery.