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moving about in front of the hive. It is then an easy matter 
to place her safely in a cage, and to remove the old hive from 
which the swarm issued and put a new one ready for the swarm in 
its place. If the bees cluster in a convenient place they may be 
shaken into a basket and dumped in front of the new hive at 
once, and the queen released and allowed to run in with them. 
Usually, the bees will shortly miss the queen and return to the 
old location of their own accord, and when they begin to enter 
the hive the queen may be released. This is a very easy manner 
of hiving swarms when the owner is in the yard when they issue. 
If no one is present when the swarm comes out, even though they 
be found while still clustered, it will be difficult to find the 
place from which they came, in a large apiary, and the swarm is 
likely to return before the queen is found. Colonies that are not 
permitted to swarm naturally are likely to come out again with 
a young queen, with which they will make off to distant scenes. 
Clipping is a decided advantage where large trees are near 
the apiary, as it is a difficult and unpleasant task to capture a 
swarm that has clustered in the top of some tall tree, perhaps 
forty feet from the ground. 
There is another advantage in having clipped queens; one 
can tell the age of every queen in the yard if records are kept. 
If the queen is a clipped one and is superseded, the attendant 
will notice the fact the first time he looks in the hive, as the young 
queen will of course not be clipped. If none of the queens are 
clipped, it will frequently happen that a queen will be super- 
seded without the knowledge of the bee-keeper. 
Cutting Out Cells—Some practice cutting out queen cells 
as a sole means of swarm prevention. At best this is an unsatis- 
factory plan. To be successful, every frame in every hive must 
be examined every eight days during the season. This entails 
so much work that it is almost entirely out of the question in a 
large apiary. An occasional cell will be overlcoked and the bees 
will swarm in spite of the best attention. 
If the bees have cast a natural swarm, one can then examine 
