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which the bees may enter. A great part of the bees which 
fall into the hive fix themselves on to its sides; but a good 
number are dropped on the linen when the hive is turned. This 
is the manner in which you act when itis determined to lodge the 
swarm; but when the swarm is to be lodged in another hive, as 
we shall see farther on, immediately that the bees recognise the 
lodging which is destined for them, they set to work to beat to 
arms, and to enter in a compact column their new dwelling ; those 
which are fluttering about in the air are summoned by this call, 
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Fig. 325.—Bell-shaped hive. Fig. 326.—English hive. 
companions are fixed. At. the end of a quarter or half an hour 
at the most, all, or nearly all, have entered the hive. A few 
still hover about round the place where the swarm was fixed. If 
the number is considerable, and if many have stopped in this 
place, you must make them quit it by placing some offensive herb 
such as celandine, horehound, field camomile, &c., on it, or project 
the smoke of a rag upon them, which will drive away the bees and 
force them to look for the colony or to return to the mother- 
hive. You may also project smoke, but in moderate quantities, 
on the bees grouped around and on the borders of the lodging 
INGA 
