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also be necessary. Always let ingenuity have its perfect 
work, not forgetting that the object to be gained is to get 
just as many of the bees as is possible on the alighting- 
board in front of the hive. Carelessness as to the quantity 
might involve the loss of the queen, which would be 
serious. The bees w7// zot remain unless the queen enters 
the hive. Should a cluster form where it is impossible to 
brush or shake them off, they can be driven into a basket, 
or hive, by holding it above them and blowing smoke 
among them. All washes for the hive are more than use- 
less. It is better that it be clean and pure. With such, 
if they are shaded, bees will generally be satisfied. But 
assurance will be made doubly sure by giving them a 
frame of brood, in all stages of growth, from an old hive. 
This may be inserted before the work of hiving is com- 
menced. Mr. Doolittle thinks this does little or no good 
and tends to induce the building of drone comb. Mr. Bet- 
singer says they are even more apt to go off; but I think 
he will not be sustained by the experience of other apia- 
rists. He certainly is not by mine. I never knew but one 
colony to leave uncapped brood; I have often known them 
to swarm out of an empty hive once or twice, and to be 
returned, after brood had been placed in the hive, when 
they accepted the changed conditions, and went at once to 
work. We should expect this, in view of the attachment 
of bees for their nest of brood, as also from analogy. How 
eager the ant to convey her larve and pupz—the so-called 
eggs—to a place of safety, when the nest has been invaded 
and danger threatens. Bees doubtless have the same desire 
to protect their young, and as they cannot carry them 
away to a new home, they remain to care for them in one 
that may not be quite to their taste. Of course if swarm- 
ing is permitted either with or without clipped queens, the 
bees mu&t be closely watched at the swarming season. Dr. 
Miller secures a bright active girl or boy to watch. He 
says the watcher can sit in the shade and go and look once 
in every four or five minutes. For 100 colonies it takes 
the whole time of one person, as the noise made by so 
many flying bees makes actual inspection of all hives 
necessary. This watching is necessary from 8 a. M. till 2 
