16 Bee-Keeping Simplified for the 
and eventually settle in a large cluster. as Fig. 20, when they 
are hived by the beekeeper, and put into a new home. 
If the bees are disinclined to settle, syringe water above, or 
Fic. 20. 
throw handsful of soil amongst them. As soon as all have 
collected to the cluster, proceed to hive them. Take a straw skep., 
or wooden box, hold it bottom upwards under the clustering bees, 
then with a vigorous shake of the branch upon which they are 
resting dislodge them so that they fall in a mass into the 
