252 Methods of Hiving. 
generally find her not far away within a ball of friendly 
workers. At night-fall, smoke these bees, and by watch- 
ing we learn the hive which swarmed, as the bees about 
the queen will repair at once to it. Mr. Doolittle suggests 
that we may always find what colony-swarmed when a 
swarm is out. If we take a portion of the bees from the 
c'uster into a pail and swing them around lively, then throw 
them out, they will at once, he says, fly to the old home. 
When a swarm first issues young bees, too young to fly, 
crawling about before the hive, will often reveal the colony 
that swarmed, 
HIVING SWARMS. 
But in clipping wings, some queens may be omitted, or 
from taste, or other motive, some bee-keepers may. not 
desire to “deform her royal highness.” Then the apiarist 
must possess the means to save the would-be rovers. The 
means are: good hives in readiness; some kind of a brush 
—a turkey-wing will do; a basket with open top, which 
should be at least eighteen inches in diameter, and so made 
that it may be attached to the end of a pole; and two poles, 
one very long and the other of medium length. 
Now, let us attend to the method: As soon as the clus- 
ter commences to form, place the hive in position where 
we wish the colony to remain, leaving the entrance widely 
open. As soon as the bees are fully clustered, we must 
manage as best we can to empty the whole cluster in front 
of the hive. As the bees are full of honey they are not 
likely to sting, but will sometimes. I have known beex 
when clustered in a swarm to be very cross. This, how- 
ever, is not usual. Should the bees be on a twig that could 
be sacrificed, this might be easily cut off with either a knife 
or saw (Fig. 98), and so carefully as hardly to disturb the 
bees, then carry and shake the bees in front of the hive, 
when with joyful hum they will at once proceed to enter. 
If the twig must not be cut, shake them all into the basket, 
and empty before the hive. Should they be on a tree 
trunk, or a fence, then brush them with the wing into the 
basket, and proceed as before. If they are high up on a 
tree, take the pole and basket, and perhaps a ladder will 
