56 SWARMING AND HIVING. 
on a small limb, high above your reach, secure a basket 
to a pole, and raise it directly beneath the cluster. 
Dislodge the bees from their position, when they will 
fall directly into the basket, which you should take down 
quickly and shake the bees from it down to the entrance 
of the hive and procced as before. Keep the limb on 
which they were clustered in motion for a few minutes, 
to prevent their return. Should they cluster on the 
body of a tree, or a large limb, where they cannot be 
shaken off, set your hive near by, as before directed, and 
with a handled dipper, dip them off and turn them down 
in front of the hive near the entrance. Dip very care- 
fully, so as not to crush any of the bees. They will not 
attempt to sting if you treat them well, and prove to 
-them that you are their friend. After you have dipped 
off a portion of the bees, and got them moving into the 
hive, if the queen is with them, they will all leave the 
‘cluster and join their companions who are entering their 
new home. But if the queen remains with the cluster, 
as soon as those entering the hive discover that she is 
not with them, they will leave the hive and rejoin the 
cluster. So it is well to keep dipping as long as you 
can get any of the bees, or till you are certain the bees 
are leaving the cluster and entering the hive of their own 
accord. 
It sometimes happens in natural swarming, that when 
a swarm issues, led by the old queen, which has occupied 
the hive for a year or more, that she finds herself unable 
to fly, and drops down in front of the hive. In this case 
