This operation we performed, exactly as described above, with one of our improved cottage hives one afternoon at the latter end of May, 1862. Whilst inspecting our bees, we caught sight of the queen on the comb in one of the bell glasses. This was a chance not to be missed, and we immediately resolved to form an artificial swarm, for the hive was very full of bees. Besides, being obliged to be away from the apiary most of the week, we were glad of the opportunity of so easily establishing a colony without the uncertainty and trouble of hiving a natural swarm. In the first place we slid a tin under the bell glass, and removing the stock hive from underneath we took it a few feet away; then we placed an empty improved cottage hive where the old stock had stood, and put the glass of comb containing the queen and a few bees over one of the holes in the crown of this new empty hive. The bees that were left abroad, belonging to the old stock returned as usual to their old entrance as they supposed; soon a sufficient number formed a large cluster in the hive and began comb building, the queen remaining in the glass until the cells below were sufficiently numerous for her to deposit her eggs in them. The division answered exceedingly well, both hives prospered; the old hive either had some princesses coming forward to supply the loss of the queen, or the bees used a power that they possess of raising a queen from worker brood in the manner we have previously described.[5] [Footnote 5: See Section 1, page 5.] The foregoing account illustrates the successful formation of an artificial swarm; but with a cottage hive it was quite a matter of accident to have been able to get possession of the queen. With a moveable frame hive she can at any suitable time be found. Precisely the same plan is to be adopted with the old stock in the frame hive as we have described in the case of the cottage hive, that is to remove it some few paces off: when the hives are in a bee-house, a similar result may be attained by placing the new swarm for a day or two to the entrance used by the bees when with the old stock, and the old stock may be removed to an approximate entrance. Some apiarians recommend that a space be left between the two hives, by placing the hives on the right and left of the old entrance, in order that too large a proportion of bees should not enter the new hive at the old position to the impoverishment of the other. But we have found the mode adopted with the cottage hive answer so well, that we see no reason for recommending any different plan.