HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



The safest plan, however, is to hive the swarm 

 as quickly as possible, for in all likelihood they 

 have sent out their scouts to find a congenial 

 home in the heart of an old tree or under the 

 weatherboards of a house, and in some cases 

 they often have their objective point picked 

 out days in advance, and unless hived will 

 eventually go away. 



In the majority of cases the swarm will 

 cluster on the lower limb of a tree or on a 

 bush, and in fact I have had them cluster on a 

 post, but in any case they are easily removed, 

 and that without attendant danger of one's 

 being stung, as every bee has filled its stomach 

 with honey, realizing that it will be needed 

 to build their combs within their new home, 

 and it is this condition that renders them 

 largely incapable of stinging, as they cannot 

 bend the abdomen to do so. 



If you are wise, you will have had your 

 empty hive body with its frames of full foun- 

 dation all ready for just such an emergency, 

 and as soon as the swarm comes forth it will 



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