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Now, if several swarms cluster together, we have not to 
separate them; they will usually separate of themselves and 
return to their old homes. To migrate without the queen 
means death, and life is sweet even to bees, and is not to 
be willingly given up except for home and kindred. Even 
if they all enter into one hive, the queens are not with 
them and it is very easy to divide them as desired. Neither 
has the apiarist to climb trees, to secure his bees from bushy 
trunks, from off the lattice-work or pickets of his fence, from 
the very top of a tall, slender, fragile fruit tree, or other 
most inconvenient places. Nor will he even be tempted 
to pay his money for patent non-swarming hivers or patent 
swarm catchers. He knows his bees will return to their 
old quarters, so he is not perturbed by the fear of loss or 
plans to capture the unapproachable. It requires no effort 
“to possess his soul in patience.” If he wishes no increase, 
he steps out, takes the queen by the remaining wings, as 
she emerges from the hive, soon after the bees commence 
their hilarious leave-taking, puts her in a cage, opens the 
hive, destroys, or, if he wishes to use them, cuts out the 
queen-cells as already described, gives more room—either 
by adding a crate of sections or taking out some of the 
frames of brood, as they may well be spared—places the 
cage enclosing the queen under the quilt, and leaves the 
bees to return at their pleasure. At night-fall the queen is 
liberated, the hive may be removed to another place, and 
very likely.the swarming fever is subdued for the seasor, 
If it is desired to unite the swarm with a nucleus, exchange 
the places of the old hive with the caged queen, as soon as 
the swarm is out, and the nucleus hive, to which, of cource, 
the swarm will now come. The queen-cells should be 
removed at once from the old hive, and the queen liberated. 
The nucleus colony, now strongly enforced, should have 
empty frames, but always with starters, added, making five 
in all; and a crate of sections with thin foundation added 
atonce. The five frames—Langstroth size, more if smaller 
—are put on one side and the rest of the space filled by 
division boards. Here the nucleus is at once transformed 
into a large, strong colony. 
If it is desired to hive the swarm separately—and usually 
