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now. Other bees from the hive will soon be 

 hunting along the line, for the first bees tell 

 their mates of the find. If there is only a 

 small amount of honey a few bees will seek 

 it. Enough bees will come to remove the 

 honey in two days. If there is a large amount 

 <5ee Hunting of honey about all the working bees in a 

 swarm will turn out. I have taken a basket 

 of comb from strained honey on to a bee- 

 line, and have had two quarts or more of 

 bees on the comb at a time. I could walk 

 slowly along the line, and the bees would 

 come and go as readily as if I was stationary. 

 It is a good plan to hang up a newspaper, or 

 a flag of some kind, near the box. Some 

 hunters claim that the bees will find the box 

 by scent, so use the anise bag. 



We will now return to the bee-box. There 

 is a lot said about a bee-line, which is sup- 

 posed to be a straight line, but the fact is, 

 the bee flies in a wavy line. He drops off 

 the box and starts for the hive, swinging from 

 side to side of an imaginary straight line. 

 The swings will cover about thirty feet, but 

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