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thirty-eight swarms, in the year 1888, only one came 

 out without being caught in the basket.'" 1 



The above plan having but lately been brought to 

 my notice, I have not had a chance to try it. I be- 

 lieve, however, that it can be made to answer the 

 following valuable purposes : 



FIRST. The arresting and hiving of swarms with 

 but little trouble, or danger of their departing for the 

 forest. 



SECOND. As the swarms are not permitted to take 

 wing, there is no danger of two or more uniting, as 

 is frequently the case when a number of hives exist 

 in the same apiary. 



With the above purposes in view, I have construct- 

 ed what I shall call a swarm net, which is more 

 simple and easier of management than the swarm 

 basket, but on the same principle. 



SWARM NET. 



Plate xxxn, fig. 57, represents a side view of a 

 swarm net, as affixed to a hive supposed to be swarm- 

 ing. 



a is the net, made of white mosquito bar, or other 

 thin, open fabric, sufficiently close in the mesh to re- 

 tain the bees, yet not to exclude the light. 



The dimensions of the net are, six feet long and 

 fifteen inches in diameter ; (the size can be varied 



*From the " Newest Illustrated Bee Friend, by Professor Mor- 

 ris Beyer, and J. F. O. Kuehnor." Published in Leipzig, Ger- 

 many, 1852. 



