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closely and see the direction they take. By following this 

 line we come to the bee-tree, or more likely to some neighbor's 

 apiary. By getting two lines, if the bees are from the same 

 tree, the tree will be where the lines meet. We should be care- 

 ful not to be led to neighboring apiaries, and should look very 

 closely when the bees fly, to be sure of the line. Bxperience 

 makes a person quite skillful. It need hardly be said that in 

 warm days in winter, when there is snow on the ground, we 

 may often find bee-trees by noting dead bees on the snow, as 

 also the spotting of the snow, as the bees void their feces. 

 When a tree is found, we must use all possible ingenuity to 

 get the combs whole if we wish to transfer the bees. We may 

 cut in and remove the comb ; may cut out the section of tree 

 containing the bees and lower this by use of a rope ; or we 

 may fell the tree. In this last case we may make the destruc- 

 tion less complete if we fall the tree on other smaller trees to 

 lessen the jar. 





